Former developers of futuristic racing classic WipEout – including the series’ co-creator – have formed a new studio with the co-creator of Skate to work on a new sci-fi sports game.
Starlight Games is made up of devs including former Psygnosis veterans Gary Nichols and Nick Burcombe, and Skate co-creator Andy Santos, who also counts Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Horizon Zero Dawn VR spin-off Call of the Mountain among his credits.
While the name is new, the team is technically not, having worked together as Atomicom for over a decade. The shift to Starlight apparently comes as part of an effort to create new IP rather than their past focus as work-for-hire.
Starlight plans to hit the ground running with a number of games already in the works, including this summer’s House of Golf 2 – a sequel to Atomicom’s 2019 crazy golf game – and two sci-fi games that hew closer to their legacy on WipEout.
The first being teased is an untitled “futuristic sports game” directed by Burcombe. Its brief teaser trailer shows a bunch of people in sci-fi-looking suits rendered sharply in Unreal Engine 5 – Dead Space-like spine panels, check; glossy full-face helmets, check – before promising “the future of sports” at its end.
The second is described only as a “rogue-like science fiction strategy simulation management game”. (Thanks, GI.biz.)
The untitled futuristic sports game is due to get a full reveal in the next few months, with no word on when we might see more of the sci-fi roguelike.