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Psygnosis Limited was established in 1984 publishers and developers of computer games. The first releases were from 1985 for the straight -down to market 16- bit home computer Atari ST and Amiga. Later, it was developed for PC and Playstation. 1993 Psygnosis Sony for U.S. $ 48 million has been bought. From 2001, under I'm operating under the name of Sony Computer Entertainment Studio Liverpool. As a developer, they can post their most success with the futuristic racing game series, WipEout. In August 2012, the Studio of Sony has been closed.

  • 2.1 as a developer
  • 2.2 as a publisher

History

The beginnings

The founder of Psygnosis were Ian Hetherington and Dave Lawson, who had previously worked for the Liverpool developers imagine in a managerial position, which ceased operation in July 1984 due to bankruptcy. Together with the investor Robert Smith, they acquired parts of bankrupt imagine and put a few of the former imagine- employees.

Jonathan Ellis was responsible for the business affairs. He commissioned the artist Roger Dean, who had previously designed LP cover for Asia and Yes, with the design of a corporate logo. Next to a lettering Dean designed a silver owl whose wings spread leaving a circular frame and a circular, stylized owl's head. The latter is one of the most recognized logos in the computer games industry.

Achievements

The release of Shadow of the Beast in 1989 became one of the first great success as a publisher. Developed at Reflections Interactive game had outstanding graphic quality with parallax scrolling and received two sequels and ports to various platforms.

With the release of Lemmings Psygnosis in 1991 was promoted to the first division of the Publisher. Lemmings was developed by David Jones at DMA Design and Psygnosis became the biggest hit ever.

Pioneers of the CD -ROM

A pioneering role was played Psygnosis in the production of games on CD -ROM. We invested heavily in this area. The results were first released in Japan for the multimedia computer introduced in 1989 FM-Towns, who possessed standard with a CD - ROM drive. After Sega ( first world in 1991 in Japan since 1992) supported the introduction of the Mega - CD extension for the 16- bit console Sega Mega Drive CD -ROM as a storage medium, it also came here to work together. Among the first titles that have been developed for Mega - CD, included the 1993 published Bram Stoker's Dracula and the unpublished Last Action Hero.

Acquisition by Sony

On May 23 In 1993, Sony's Sony Electronic Publishing division, based in New York 's acquisition of Psygnosis known. The Sony Electronic Publishing, founded in 1991 has been instrumental in the launch of Sony's first PlayStation console in the Western Regions sale in autumn 1995. With the acquisition of Psygnosis Sony could expand the in-house capacity for the development of PlayStation games and so ensure that the sales launch major software offer. Attractive Psygnosis was also the expertise that they had when Media CD -Rom. Since 2001, the studio was conducted under the name of Sony Computer Entertainment Studio Liverpool. In August 2012, Sony announced the closure of its development studios.

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