It recently came to my attention that Sony recently shut down Psygnosis studios (which was currently known as Sony Liverpool).

This REALLY gives me a huge case of teh sads. So many games from my past (many of which a bunch of you young-ins have probably never even heard of) came out of this place. They had been making games for almost thirty years now.

They were also responsible for creating one of the HARDEST games I've ever played.

Shadow of the Beast. More specifically the NA Genesis version. (due to some sort of issues with the normal refresh rates of televisions between Europe and NA, the NA version ran almost 17% FASTER than normal. Combine that with NO continues and a hard difficulty to begin with makes it recognizably one of the hardest Genesis games).

Other games I have fond memories of that they created....

Barbarian

Lemmings

Colony Wars

Destruction Derby 1 & 2

Drakan

The whole Wipeout series

Sad times indeed. *sighs* Good memories though.

Also, they had some of the most badass boxart ever. Check out this gallery from Craptaco.

http://kotaku.com/5603933/the-most-awesome-box-art-in-the-world/gallery/1

Their box art was great, and they made some good games in there time. I have played a few of them too. Always sad to hear. Hopefully the talent will move on to other places.

Reallly depressing to hear, loved destruction derby, overboard! and of course wipeout.

DUFFY!!!!!!

Yeah, Lemmings was beast back in the day. So was DD1 and 2...those were the days!