SONY axes multiple games at UK studios.

[justinian]

The Fury said:

AussieGecko said:

The Fury said:

What have Studio Liverpool been working on since WipeOut HD was done? Psygnosis were one of the best developers in the Playstation 1 era.

That said, looking at SCEE jobs, they are looking for localisation testers at the moment.

 

More problems in the UK games industry. We have some of the best developers in the world and the UK gaming industry is far bigger then either of our film or music industries both in import and exports yet our government cuts fundings and incentives to help companies and development studios go out of business.

Ms doesnt seem to be cutting UK staff... if anything they are creating more

They are? in whichs studio? Rare or Lionhead? Either way both of these studios are big and MS need to keep hold of them, more so the latter. They don't have any other studios here do they?

There are lots of important studios in this country and many have fallen recently. While SCEE, MS and EA can support the big ones, others are falling. Our government needs to reinstate the tax benefits program to help them before we lose our biggest entertainment industry.

So true, I could be wrong (and forgive me if I am) but I read a while back that games are far more expensive to produce in the UK than anywhere else.

If the government doesn't step in to curb this I can see these companies eventually packing up and moving elsewhere and that would be a shame.