Tag: Lightbox Interactive
News Starhawk Developer Shrinks, Switches to iOS Development
Times are changing
We didn’t expect Starhawk developer LightBox Interactive to stay exclusive to Sony following the release of its most recent online multiplayer shooter, but we’re a little bit disappointed by the company’s decision to step away from console development altogether. Alas, company president Dylan Jobe confirmed overnight that...
News Sackboy Takes to the Stars in New LittleBigPlanet 2 DLC
One giant leap for burlap
Sackboy’s cross promotional potential continues to lavish us with awesome new downloadable outfits. The latest costume to hit the mascot’s ever expanding LittleBigPlanet 2 wardrobe comes courtesy of the recently released PS3 exclusive Starhawk. You’ll nab three new outfits as part of the minipack, each of which will...
News Starhawk Features Dual Log-ins
Friends with benefits
There was a time when gaming was all about hanging out with mates and competing on the couch. That time has since become a distant memory, as the importance of online gaming grows. But Lightbox Interactive is aiming to bring split-screen back... Well, sort of anyway. The thing is, Starhawk will not feature four-player...
News Twisted Metal's Sweet Tooth Sneaks Into Starhawk As Bonus Character
Twisted Metal's gone gold -- and to celebrate the game's impending Valentine's Day release date, Eat Sleep Play's released the first image of Sweet Tooth as he'll appear in the upcoming multiplayer shooter Starhawk
Those of you that pick up a copy of next month's car combat reboot will snatch up a voucher for the Sweet Tooth skin, which will allow...
News Starhawk Takes To The Stars On May 8th, Public Beta Opens This Week
Prepare for an intergalactic summer, as Sony's just announced that the PlayStation 3 exclusive, Starhawk, is set to release on May 8th in North America
There's no date for the European release just yet, but we assume it will be around a similar time-frame. The firm release date comes at the end of Starhawk's rather elaborate public beta test plans...
News Starhawk Public Beta Swoops Onto The PlayStation Network Next Week
Starhawk developer, Lightbox Interactive, promised that private beta testers wouldn't have to wait long for their next fix of the intergalactic strategy shooter -- and they weren't lying
Announced moments ago on the PlayStation Blog, publisher Sony has confirmed that the private beta for Starhawk is set to take off as soon as next week. Private beta...
News Lightbox Interactive Teases 'Surprising' DLC Strategy For Starhawk
Starhawk developer, Lightbox Interactive, is planning to surprise players with its DLC plans
In an interview with Respawn Action, senior producer Harvard Bonin told the website that the developer has decided to give a lot of content away, though he added that the expansions will not be throwaway, joking that he'd be "happy to take your...
News Starhawk Beta Jets Into The Distance On January 3rd
If you've spent the last couple of months patrolling the skies in a futuristic Warhawk and summoning structures from outer-space, you might be a little disappointed to learn that Lightbox Interactive is pulling the plug on the Starhawk beta come January 3rd
The good news is that the developer's keeping things running over the holidays, giving you...
News Starhawk Private Beta Kicks Off Next Tuesday
Loyal Warhawk fans will get their first taste of Starhawk next Tuesday (November 22nd) when Lightbox Interactive puts the intergalactic shooter's first private beta online
Players will be invited via e-mail to participate in the beta, but Lightbox has reassured fans not to be too disappointed if they are not included in the initial wave of entrants...
News Private Starhawk Beta Kicking Off In November
There's a lot of great games coming out this Holiday, but do you wish Warhawk's space-bound successor, Starhawk, was one of them? It's totally understandable we suppose
But there's a solution. Lightbox Interactive has announced a private beta will start for the game as soon as next month. Players will receive a "special email" denoting...
News Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception To Include Starhawk Beta Code
Exciting news PlayStation people, Sony has announced that all new copies of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception will come packaged with an early access beta code for Lightbox Interactive's Starhawk
The Starhawk beta will launch in 2012. Uncharted 3 will also include four behind-the-scenes videos detailing Starhawk's development. Smart move? We think so...
First Impressions Starhawk on PlayStation 3
Starhawk is a dense experience that demands more time than our demo allowed
By the end of our short hands-on, we were flying over a huge changing battlefield, tailing enemy Warhawks desperately trying to assume a lock-on. Unfortunately, we didn't get enough time with the game to truly get a grasp on how the gameplay will be structured. Playing as...
News Lightbox Interactive Releases Fresh Starhawk Footage Out Of Comic-Con
Comic-Con may be old like a bad joke, but it's not stopped Lightbox Interactive from releasing a fresh bout of Starhawk footage out of the show
The trailer features the thoughts and opinion of fans (to its detriment), but there's enough new gameplay footage to make the video worth a watch.
News Starhawk's Space Gameplay To Debut At GamesCom
Ever since Starhawk was announced, we've all been waiting patiently to see the game's space combat
According to senior producer Harvard Bonin, we'll get our first glimpse of that at this month's GamesCom event in Germany. "Were going to be rolling out our Space level at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany on August 17th," he said. "I...
News Check Out Starhawk's Stellar Transitions Between Cut-Scenes & Gameplay
The emphasis of the footage coming out of Starhawk's Comic-Con panel is to demonstrate the game's transitions between gameplay and cut-scenes
With Starhawk including inFamous' motion comic cut-scene approach, Lightbox has developed a really neat effect that transforms polygons into art, as demonstrated in the video embedded above. The cut-scene...
News Lightbox Interactive Explains How To Create A New Universe
Creating new IP must be one of the most exciting and daunting tasks for any game designer
On one hand, it must be extremely satisfying to see your ideas brought to life in front of you. But on the other hand, it must be a serious creative challenge. Great ideas flourish at good teams, but they don't always grow on trees. Thus it's interesting to...
News Starhawk To Feature At Comic-Con Next Month, Check Out Some Footage
Comic-Con is not about comic books anymore
It's about movies and video games. So it's not surprise to see Sony announce that its bringing Starhawk — Lightbox Interactive's spiritual successor to Warhawk — to the show next month. Sony's promised it will reveal more of Starhawk's single-player at the convention. In the mean-time, the PlayStation...
News Watch Lightbox Interactive Having A Ridiculous Amount Of Fun Playing Their Own Game
According to Lightbox Interactive, Starhawk's multiplayer is going to be "just as much fun as Warhawk"
This trailer actually makes it look better as far as we're concerned. Sure, it's all a bit staged the way the developers are gathered around laughing and joking about their own game, but we can relate to some of those screams of jubilation because...
News Starhawk Promises Something Fresh For The Saturated Shooter Space
Homefront, Battlefield, Call Of Duty
All unique franchises with quality components, but irritatingly similar in design. According to Sony's in-house market research, gamers are starting to long for something a little bit different in their multiplayer shooter experiences. That's where Starhawk comes in. "Sony, of course they want to sell games...
News Sony Releases Bumper Starhawk Trailer, Breaks Down Everything
Sony's put up a bumper five-minute trailer for Starhawk that breaks down each element of its gameplay
As we explained earlier, the primary mechanic is Starhawk's "Build And Battle" component, which brings dynamic real-time strategy into the game's mix of third-person shooting and flight combat. We're not entirely convinced by the game's...
News Catch A Full Thirteen Minutes Of Starhawk Gameplay
Did you hear? Starhawk has been announced for PlayStation 3
It launches on Blu-ray next year, brimming with a meaty single-player and multiplayer component. It also looks amazing. Step away from the grimy art-style for a moment, and you'll find the core staples of Warhawk's gameplay in tact, bolstered by a new Real-Time Strategy mechanic that looks...
News Watch Dylan Jobe & Geoff Keighley Talk Starhawk On GTTV
Geoff Keighley's GTTV had the overnight exclusive on Starhawk, but just in case you missed it, we've embedded Dylan Jobe's interview after the jump
The footage features plenty of multiplayer and single-player gameplay, as well as some background on Starhawk's narrative. Catch it after the jump.
News First Starhawk Gameplay Trailer Introduces Transforming Warhawks, Amazing
If you're a fan of Warhawk, this debut trailer for Lightbox Interactive's spiritual successor, Starhawk, should get you pumped
Not only does the on-foot action look much more refined than in its predecessor, but the Warhawks also transform. They friggin' transform into mechs. It's basically like the Transformers game we always dreamed of. Check out...
News Confirmed: Lightbox Interactive Announce Starhawk For PlayStation 3, Releasing In 2012
The PlayStation Network might still be down, but Sony's prepping itself for E3 2011 in style -- starting with the long rumoured announcement of Starhawk from Dylan Jobe's Lightbox Interactive studio
The sequel to Warhawk, due out in 2012, will launch on a Blu-ray and will boast a single-player campaign in addition to a fully-featured multiplayer...
News Starhawk Reveal (Probably) Incoming Next Week
Dylan Jobe's next project -- hotly rumoured to be Starhawk -- is set to get an announcement on next Friday's GTTV
The site's schedule currently lists a "Sony surprise", but being the eagle-eyed investigative minds that we are, we already have a pretty big idea what that surprise might contain. Much of the American press was shipped down to...
Rumour Starhawk Announcement Imminent, Physical Release Planned
It feels like we've been talking about Starhawk for an eternity
Dylan Jobe's Lightbox Interactive studio has been rumoured to be working on the "Warhawk in space" release for yonks now. But despite the countless threads of industry whispers, nobody has any confirmation the game actually exists. Well, apart from SystemLink it seems. The...
Rumour Warhawk 2 Details Outed?
Stop tipping us, already
We've read the rumours about Warhawk 2, and weren't going to post them, but seeing as our inbox has been flooded [well, it was more like two or three messages - Ed] with links to Just Push Start's report, we'll damn well cover it, alright? According to the publication, Sony recently held an event inviting fans of the 2007...
News Is Warhawk's Successor Finally Going To Get An Announcement?
Dylan Jobe's Lightbox Interactive have been curiously silent over the last couple of months
It's nothing to worry about, the studio hotly believed to be working on a successor to Warhawk — tipped to be called Starhawk — often drop off the radar, before making a dramatic reappearance like a bumped-off soap star. Today just so happens to be one of...
News Yoshida: It's "About Time" For Lightbox Announcement
Starhawk
We write the title like it's an announced product, but actually, no one has a clue what Dylan Jobe and his team at Lightbox are up to. It's strongly anticipated that whatever the team's working on will play into the Warhawk franchise, but only the people working on it know for certain. So when will we find out for sure? Grilled by Joystiq ,...
News Dylan Jobe: Starhawk's Still A Long Way Off
Dylan Jobe's Lightbox Interactive studio is heavily rumoured to be working on a space-bound spiritual successor to the popular Warhawk franchise
Speculated to be entitled Starhawk, Jobe recently submitted a milestone build to Sony, which, by all accounts, went down rather well. So how long until we get a beta, one eager Tweeter asked. "Ha! No,...
News Dylan Jobe To Present Milestone Review To Sony
Sony's going to be checking out the latest playtest of Lightbox Interactive's latest game today
That's according the studio's big-wig Dylan Jobe who Tweeted overnight about being "<span>off to SONY tomorrow for our latest milestone review and playtest. Really happy with the progress this month!"</span>...
News Starhawk Reaching "Milestone Build" This Friday, Possible E3 Appearance
Dylan Jobe, head of the new Lightbox Interactive studio has Tweeted about a Friday deadline for a "milestone" build of whatever game his team are working on
Naturally with a trademark for "Starhawk" filed by Sony, there's only one thing to assume about what game that is. David Jaffe also claimed earlier that he has a "milestone"...
News Sony Trademarks "Starhawk", Warhawk In Space Game Confirmed
Remember when it was just a rumour that Lightbox Interactive (a team made up of former Incognito employees) were making a Warhawk type game in space? Well it's probably not rumour anymore because, well, fine-eyed employees over at Joystiq spotted that Sony had registered a trademark for the name "Starhawk"
Now, it doesn't exactly take the biggest of...
News Dylan Jobe Leaves Incognito And Starts Up A New Playstation Studio
The director of Warhawk, Dylan Jobe, has announced he has left Incognito Entertainment and taken some staff with him
The new studio, Lightbox Interactive, will be based in Austin, Texas. The new studio is in a multi-year contract with Sony to develop games for "the Playstation family of platforms" — so you need not worry about...
