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Dallinor on 22 August 2012
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Kynes said:
Chandler said:
Sad news. What games did they do? Too lazy to google it right now :P


Barbarian, Shadow of the Beast, Lemmings, Wipeout, Destruction Derby, The formula one games made for Sony Consoles when Sony had the license...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCE_Studio_Liverpool

A huge loss. A shocking trend with Vita and Sony studios:

Bigbig Studios releases Vita game, Sony closes them.
Zipper Interactive releases Vita game, Sony closes them.
Studio Liverpool releases Vita game, Sony closes them.


I wouldn't put this down as a huge loss at all. Losing Naughty Dog or Santa Monica would be huge. Unfortunetly Studio Liverpool, considering their size, have produced very little this generation. I just wish they'd made another destruction derby, those games were amazing.

I'm all for Sony closing studios when they stop producing the goods, begin to stagnate or grow too large and unweildy. At this moment in time Sony could do with trimming some of the fat in SCEWS.

Next on the chopping block would probably be parts of the japan studio or the cambridge or london studios. I think the Japan studio works on a lot of the updates on the firmware side of things though, so perhaps despite their size and lack of releases, they are still very productive.