Sony Closes Psygnosis

Psygnosis, renamed to SCE Studio Liverpool in the early 2000s, has been officially closed by parent company Sony. For those of you recognising the logo but not necessarily the name, this is the company that made Lemmings, Destruction Derby, Wipeout, Wiz 'n' Liz and a huge library of other games. Just look at the list at the bottom of the studio's Wikipedia entry. This is one of the world's long... more.

Hell has frozen over and pigs have started flying. Crytek, the developer behind critically acclaimed Crysis series has announced the first game is coming to PS3 and XBox 360 this year in October. The first-person shooter has remained a PC exclusive since its launch in 2007. The port has been rumored for ages,  but until now, there hasn't been any official confirmation. You can see how well the... more.

Remember how we recently wrote about Modern Warfare 3 and COD XP? Remember how I said this is a battle for hearts and minds? Well, yesterday, on the second evening of the event, Activision brought out the big guns. Manifested in the presence of Kanye West, an American hip-hop singer and producer with five platinum albums. Unfortunately the best video record of this event looks like this: Al... more.

Earlier today Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced that the UK development firm Double Eleven had just signed a deal with them. Know for it's work on LittleBigPlanet, Double Eleven will become an exclusive developer for Sony platforms like the PS3. Double Eleven was initially founded  in 2010, by former Rockstar lead engineers. As aforementioned the new development team is ... more.

Electronic Arts has released a new Virtual Playbook video for the upcoming Madden NFL 12 game. The game is set to be in stores August 30th and will be available for the Wii, PS2, PS3, XBox 360, PSP and Nintendo 3DS. This will be the 10th installment of the Madden NFL series and will showcase some new additions, including 25 new plays. We will also list a few of the additional features known... more.

Rumours have been circulating about a press release from Sony, claiming a press conference will be held to address the PSN outage. Seems like an odd day of the week for this, but all we can do is share the information we have collected. The press conference will be held at 2:00 PM JST, on Sunday May 1st. We here on Kitguru have been following this closely, starting with myself on the Gaming new... more.

Today Kitguru discovered LucasArts and Epic Games have signed a multi-year deal.  Essentially this will ensure the Unreal Engine 3 will be a long term inclusion across multi-platforms for LucasArts. Will this add a new twist to the classic Star Wars games, and those on the horizon? Well it seems Zak Phelps, Director of Technology at LucasArts, is already sharpening up on his Jedi skills: "... more.

We here at Kitguru don't like to hear about closures, but sometimes this is unavoidable. The Scotland based independent studio was founded in 2006, and has released titles such as Motorstorm and The Shoot. Cohort Studios indicated the reason for this closure is a declining console marketplace. The company was started by Lol Scragg, Darran Thomas and Bruce McNeish. At the time of the announc... more.

The PlayStation Network (PSN) has been plagued with issues and outages for several weeks, and the service has been unavailable for several days. Sony has commented that this issue is not primarily related to the companies servers themselves. In fact they have stated that these issues have been caused by hackers, and Anonymous had been named. "An external intrusion on our system has affected ou... more.

We here at Kitguru have been following the offers of Cloud Gaming closely. Playcast Media is now offering this Games On Demand service in Singapore, incorporating Singapore Telecommunications Limited, Asia's leading provider in multimedia solutions. Before we share this news we wish to familiarize our readers with Cloud Gaming, for those not in the know. Cloud Gaming Basically Cloud Gamin... more.