Studio Liverpool gone

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Basically, what I've learned about this whole experience (and I had a fair idea beforehand), is that sony are massive arseholes and they don't know how to run a business. More exciting projects? Like what, exactly? As I said to xpand when I heard about it: "let's just buy a company, piggyback on their game's reputation and class to market our product, take their game and **** with it so it doesn't work right, and then shut them down anyway."
And what really makes me mad about this is that I absolutely cannot believe they would have the gall to make SL work on a new game for eighteen months and then cancel it. And that is in the post, they have cancelled whatever it was they were working on (probably the next wipeout).
Two fingers to the lot of them. I still have some fantastic Psygnosis games on PS1, such as some F1 games, Colony Wars and CW: Vengeance, and G-police. SL were amazing.
I hear that Sony are having financial troubles. Why they dealt with this by axeing one of the most popular and fantastic games series, one of the hardest-working teams, and one of the oldest gaming business of all time is absolutely beyond belief. HD still brings in new players two years after release, for christ's sake. I sincerely hope that these troubles cause severe damage to Sony. It's what they deserve.

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