Studio Liverpool was around for almost 30 years, but was shut down on Wednesday by Sony, who had bought the company.

It was very respectable. It gave us classics like Destruction Derby, Lemmings, WipeOut and many more.
It's a sad day for them peeps who have been loving the company since it was called Psygnosis Read more about it here.
What do you think? I am personally shocked that such a great company had to go. I loved the WipeOut series so much.


EDIT: Just noticed this isn't on gaming chat. Would anyone please move it?

/me clenches fist
The nerve...
But how does a company shut down another company?

Psygnosis was acquired by Sony and was then changed the name to Studio Liverpool.

Obviously some of the ....aspects of their old company will still be there.

The building etc is still there (since other things are in it) but Sony literally killed the studio rather than merely ditching it. The game IPs belong to various other companies so they've been left with pretty much nothing, hopefully they'll start a new company or at the very least manage to get jobs.

Probably not as big a deal to gamers outside the UK, but from '84 to the mid 90's (before Sony relegated them to being the WipeOut/F1 guys) Psygnosis were the go-to company if you wanted something with quality. Pretty much my gaming childhood/teens in a nutshell.

RIP Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool.

Fuck Sony.