Sony shuts down Zipper Interactive

[JSR]

The studio behind the SOCOM games, MAG and recently Unit 13 are no more. How long before we can count the remaining studios on one hand?

Haven't played much of either MAG or SOCOM, but they both seem to good efforts in their genre. After playing Unit 13, my impressions are that it's a solid game a bit light on content. Sad to see them go.

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/2012/03/30/sony-shuts-down-socom-mag-developer-zipper-interactive/

[EvilBoris]

Hey News Machines! I read this a week ago.

No suprise really, all their games have bombed in retail.

[saturn-gamer]

I think its some sort of a worthless developer. MAG had potential but looked awful and was poorly supported. I kicked it out as soon as Bad Company 2 was on the shelves.

SOCOM 4 was awful on the whole, and Unit 13 is a nice little game (I'm picking it up at a price reduction) but very generic looking as well.

Their best games are likely the first 2 SOCOM's, at a time when there wasn't much competition on the consoles regarding online shooters.