Tarsier Studios become first-party SCE developer

I think they are going to work just for downloadable content for LBP games.

fucking hell.
where is dlc for ragdoll kungfu?
where is ragdoll 2
wtf!?!?
I would literaly kill someone for this.

oh god ragdoll kung fu was terrible i wish i can delete its game history from my trophy list……

what?
i have 100% in it.
its a great game.
So much fun with 4 players.

“Please be city of metronome”, “Please be city of metronome”, “Please be city of metronome”, “Please be city of metronome”…

Cripes Microsoft… pull your finger out, we’re getting whooped.

Yeah, Metronome seemed so awesome. I’ve almost given up on it, but with this news… maybe? Wouldn’t be entirely unlike Sony to go for a project like that.

I thought Metronome was officially canned ages ago?

They’re still mentioning it on their website so I don’t think it’s too outlandish a suggestion that it’ll be heading to PS3. I don’t think it was ever cancelled, they just shelved it ages ago so it hasn’t been in production; evidently it’s still something they’re interested in.

For the time being it looks like they’re on LBP2 DLC duties.

A strange acquistion, you would think RAD or Quantic dream would make more sense to snap up.

Well, it’d be nice to see it resurrected but I doubt that’ll be it. They had trouble attracting a publisher before, it doesn’t seem likely that Sony would suddenly decide that they want it now. I’m betting it’ll be something new.

@10 – QD would of been an excellent buy.

@11 Whilst this is assumption on my part, I’d wager a large percentage of their publisher woes were down to having little more than a concept and some nice artwork to show off. With SCEE first-party benefits behind them… well, I can’t think of a single more likely publishing environment.

That said the press release states they’re working on an unannounced game. If Metronome does ever come out, it’ll be a few years yet.

So apparently they haven’t actually been bought, they’re just contracted to do some work for Sony. I think technically that makes them second party, at least temporarily (seems the terms may have got muddled up here):

http://neogaf.net/forum/showpost.php?p=22451743&postcount=49

wait are they owned by sony or not?

Looks like ‘not’.

Maybe that was the terms of the deal, Sony say make a game for us and we will give you the funds for Metronome. Either way i hope that game comes out.

No they are not owned by sony, they just have a contract from sony to do an exclusive game that will not be on 360.
But they still remain an independant studio

Yeah, terrible word to use.

Although Media Molecule Twitter said something like Tarsier has ‘joined the family’.

Is there’s a press release anywhere?