I'd say that Arctic Edge is easily in the running of the best Motorstorm game (better than 2 and 3 to be sure). It's a real shame that BigBig was shut down, but hopefully they're getting rolled into Evolution as much as possible.
It's also a shame that Cambridge is now seemingly a satellite studio for Guerilla (but also other big first party outputs). Not that such a move is much more than publicly admitting what has been the case for years now. Cambridge has been a dedicated (and crucial) support studio for Sony for years.
But what's surprising about that, is that they did an awesome job on LBP PSP, and we'll likely see a repeat with their Killzone Vita game. I don't know if this means that them producing their own releases is completely dead, but it sounds like they won't be doing anything else besides Killzone support/titles and helping the other studios from here on out.
Really a shame. As much as I liked/loved Liberation and Killzone 2, the franchise isn't worth that much focus anymore following Killzone 3, not that I'm not interested in the Vita game.
Big Big doesn't deserve to be shut down, as they are a quality top notch dev, the problem for them, and evolution, is that they're very good at a genre no one cares about, and Motorstorm RC will probably flop as well.
Didn't the head of Evolution say that he was worried the studio would be shut down after the dismal failure of Motorstorm 3 (they blamed it on worldwide events, I disagree), I guess BigBig felt the fallout instead.
So here's a question who here feels that what Shu is doing will ultimately result in a leaner but more effective and focused SCEE, or is he shitting the bed and why?