Sony Renews Psygnosis Trademark, But Don't Get Too Excited

Oooh, Sentient remake?

Psygnosis made some absolute quality games in the 90s. IMO a very important company for SONY back in the day. Such a shame there is so many IPs there that are lost to time. Alundra, Destruction Derby, Discworld etc.
For anyone that cares heres a list.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Psygnosis_games

Shame they are sitting on this as Psygnosis is not only arguably one of the most important names of the 80s and 90s era of gaming but many of the Playstation brands most important early titles was under that banner.

Sony would attract a lot of good will if they did relaunch the brand - and given the size of firesprite, and the number of different titles (in different genres) they are working on; it would be a good way of creating some clear distinction amongst the projects. Sadly i doubt it will happen

@Kidfunkadelic83 Discworld ❤ What a game!

Wow that logo takes me back, their games used to be in nice big boxes with amazing cover art by Roger Dean.

Here's a nice Pinterest selection
https://www.pinterest.ca/pascalblanche/psygnosis-cover-art/

Anyone remember that pirate game that they made Overboard? That game was charming as hell

Being an Amiga owner from the day, I've been only too aware of what a class act they were - and what we lost when short-sighted Sony shut them down.

Their F1 Championship Edition still blows anything from the Codemasters studio on the PS3 out of the water (visually it is still amazing).
And Wipeout will never be the same again - still remembering playing it on the original Playstation back in the day - the amazing graphics and THAT pumping soundtrack.

Such a cool logo too

‘….pfffff…clink clank … BARRBARRIAN!!!….shhhhhh..’
Retro memory 😅

(On PC)

It's a gorgeous logo. I miss the 90s. Gaming's golden age.

Amazing memories, mainly of Amiga gaming before PlayStation, Lemmings, Nitro and Barbarian took hours of my life back in the day, then Destruction Derby & Wipeout on the PS.

I remember that logo when I was playing Shadow of the Beast 3. Completing levels 1&2 then getting confused on the cauldron level.....no internet guides in those days

It doesnt really matter anyway. All key members of Psygnosis (that later morphed into Studio Liverpool before shutting down) reformed as Firespirite...which Sony has just bought. So if you want to get excited about Psygonsis being PS firstparty, they technically are.

The developer that made me love Playstation. How has Colony Wars stayed dormant all these years?

So many classic titles from the Amiga days!

But honestly, if I could revive just one of their titles it would be Motorstorm.

Maybe They probably gonna change FireSprite name to Psygnosis key people at that studio worked at psygnosis/Liverpool.

I’d love to see a remaster of G police with updated controls. I bought it for my vita a few years back but it was really difficult due to the contols being really janky

Showing my age,but many happy memories of the Amiga era...Psygnosis games could be a mixed bag back then (eg: SOTB 3 had the best gameplay,but first game helped sell a lot of Amigas just on looks), but sone nice ones ala Agony,Walker etc.,& then heavy hitters like Lemmings 1& 2,Hired Guns etc.👍
Besides Wipeout,loved the Adventures of Lomax (sadly missed the Misadventures of Flink on Amiga/Megadrive),Overboard,& the underrated Colony Wars which was a great in-house match vs EA'/Origin's great Wing Commander games.
Also published the sadly delisted (on EU/AU psn), Alundra which was a great Zelda like ps1 game!👍
Agree @Rob_230 despite the mind bending puzzles, the Discworld games nailed Sir Terry's wonderful books...first was my favourite but Noir & 2 not too far behind!👍
@JJ2 maybe thinking of the Palace Barbarian game? 🤔(Where you'd lop opponent heads off & a little goblin would kick it off screen?) Great fun on C64 too! Psygnosis Barbarian was a mouse driven 2D arcade adventure game,never played it but heard it was pretty hard!

@4kgk2 I think that would be a good idea - the name Psygnosis just has so much more clout and heritage than Firesprite (who?)
Worth it for the logo alone!

The return of Drakan would be nice!

I hadn't realized Sony owned them since '93. One of my most defining SNES titles, Lemmings, was a Sony game. Who knew my connection to Sony games went back before PS1?

The brand reminds me the Megadrive port of the Shadow of the Beast, that I really love. One can dream with a metroidvania pixelart remake (maybe wih some art from Roger Dean). This also reminds me of the excellent album "Fly by Night" from Rush.

@JJ2 Maria Whittaker. Teenage me remembers this.

@Marquez i would love remakes, sequels to these 2.

Many fond memories playing their games on the Amiga back in the day. Nitro, Awesome and shadow of the beast all come to mind!

@Robocod
Oh no it’s another one. Actually one of my fav games on my Amstrad CPC. I’d chop off my brother’s head every time 😅
Two different barbarian games.

@MinerWilly
A different game from palace software. I loved it.
The sequel was rubbish though.

@NEStalgia Worth noting that for Lemmings, Psygnosis only published if, that was developed by DMA, who later made GTA 1 & 2. GTA 3 was made by most of the same people after Take 2 bought DMA and created Rockstar Games, which is why you'll see both logos on some editions of GTA 3

@theheadofabroom ahh, interesting. A little depressing that lemmings was made by the GTA team though, lol.

@JJ2 Yep,I know the Palace version of Barbarian very well! Original C64 box i owned had pt.A on both sides of the disk,so never got to Drax's castle Pt.B until I got it again via Ocean's "The In Crowd" compilation...& learned what a bugger Drax was to beat!😱 Worth it for the ending!😋😂

Sony did Psygnosis dirty.

Microsoft and EA are where studios usually go to die, but Sony killed a whole publisher. Shameful!
I do miss Psygnosis. They made lots of good games in the PS1 era.

I want to recall Rollcage as well. Which Sony also forgot. Thankfully caged element went and did it by themselves with Grip. But, with Sony publisher support and the brand it would've been so much more.

I imagine we've seen the last of wipeout as well. They have been re-releasing 2048 and HD fury on all systems. HD Fury was already a port of the psp games.

/grumble

Ooohh a remake of blood money...one of my fave shoot em' ups from them..classic game and brilliant couch co-op to boot..

@NEStalgia Eh, I find it more of a thing of "look how broad a variety studios used to make". There's also the fact that Lemmings was one of the first games DMA made from scratch (as opposed to ports) back when it was just a handful of people in a room, whereas GTA was one of the last, at a long where they had hundreds across several buildings. There's a noclip documentary about DMA, if you're interested

@theheadofabroom Technically it is cool. I just have a soft spot for Lemmings. It still holds up, ugly as it is, today as something utterly unique and memorable. GTA is...well....GTA.... Though the first two are quite different from what it is after that.