The acquisition is similar to that of SCE's recent addition of Killzone developer Guerrilla Games back in December 2005, in that Sony already had very close ties with both companies. The agreement with Redmond, Washington-based Zipper means the studio will be an exclusive developer for SCE, and will join SCE Worldwide Studios, Sony's recently formed games development operation source Next Generation http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2120&Itemid=2
No Loss Oh well, not really a loss to the rest of the console world because all they have put out is buggy junk *cough* Socom2 *cough* for the last few years.