Starlight Games is a brand new, UK-based development studio, and it has some real video game veterans among its ranks. Furthermore, the new team has hit the ground running, with several titles already at various stages of production.
The studio is founded by Gary Nichols, a Psygnosis alumnus, and he's joined by a senior management team including Nick Burcombe, best known for his work on the WipEout series; Andy Santos, co-creator of Skate and director of Horizon Call of the Mountain; and founding member of Gamesys, Ben Cronin. Utilising Unreal Engine 5 for its projects, the experienced leadership is putting an emphasis on discovering young new talent to fill out its team.
As mentioned, Starlight already has a few games in the pipeline. First and foremost is House of Golf 2, a crazy golf game with couch co-op, coming to PS5 later in the year. More exciting is a "futuristic sports title" being directed by Burcombe, with more details arriving "in the coming months", and a sci-fi strategy roguelite, again with more info coming soon. Rounding things off will be some experiences made for Fortnite, headed up by the studio's younger members to give them practical experience with Unreal.
What do you think of this new announcement? Are you excited to see what Starlight Games has to offer? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Damn Pygnosis were one of my fav developers on the Amiga. Could be a team to watch…
Can’t wait to see what there working on
Been a LONG time since Psygnosis existed - before Sony bought them and they became Sony Computer Entertainment. That was over 30yrs ago now...
Awesome, looking forward to their next racing game: OutWipe.
Awesome, looking forward to their next space fighting game: War of Colonies.
I did love some Psygnosis back in the day. When the 'futuristic sports title' was mentioned above, I immediately thought of Speedball/Speedball 2 (though the internet tells me they weren't Psygnosis games after all), but I suppose those games have been superseded several times over in the past 35 years..
That name sounds so generic that it seems like there is already a Starlight Games.
Should have named themselves Prognosis😉
Can't wait for them to be bought and shutdown by the parent company again.
Sadly seems to be a cycle in UK game development.
Psygnosis, well I still have my framed "Obliterator" poster up on my wall here in my homecinema/gamingroom!! And I still have my Amiga 500 in the closet.
@deadfred77 yes speedball was bitmap brothers if I remember correctly and in my opinion I’m not sure any futuristic sports game has bettered speedball 2!
Please be a G-Police remake. An absolute late 90s Psygnosis classic.
@Marquez YES! Completely forgot about G Police. Thank you for the nostalgia shot.
Is nice to see the old guard having some revenge. I do have to laugh at the positive spin on finding young new talent, better known as "we're looking for cheap" 😂
@Kidfunkadelic83 I'd have preferred Pig Noses.
I hope this will become mid budget AA projects, and not yet another bunch of AAA games, that will take 5 years to make.
It's too bad they can't use the Psygnosis name and logo.
Not only were their Amiga games stunning, when it came to music and graphics (though the gameplay was often kinda "meh", like the Beast games), but the artwork on those big boxes was amazing.
"Agony" and "Walker", on the Amiga, were my favorites.
Stay independent!!!!
What a strange coincidence. I was literally just watching a Shadow of the Beast Amiga long play in YouTube and wondering what happened to Psygnosis
Brings back memories of colony wars and g-police, atmospheric games.
Spiritual successor to Sentient, let's gooo!
You had me at Psygnosis.
LOL, I kept waiting for demo scene music to start during that teaser. Also, the whole time I kept thinking, "this is Starlight, not Fairlight". LOL!
The article should have linked to this:
https://www.timeextension.com/features/an-ode-to-the-owl-the-inside-story-of-psygnosis
@IntrepidWombat Colony Wars was such a great game! Either way this is great news 🥳
Psygnosis were always kinda meh to me so... meh to this too.
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