Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) recently announced (9/8) that it has acquired Firesprite, a development team headquartered in Liverpool, England, and incorporated it into the ranks of its own game studio group PlayStation Studios, becoming its 14th studio.
Firesprite has many members from SIE Liverpool Studio, so this acquisition can be said to be an alternative return.
SIE stated that Firesprite is a creative and ambitious studio that excels in creating incredible experiences and truly demonstrates the potential of PlayStation hardware. The team’s technical and creative capabilities will be the key to the development of SIE’s exclusive game lineup.
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Today is an incredible day for Firesprite, because we joined the PlayStation Studio with the support of Hermen and the entire PlayStation family. We are very much looking forward to the next part of our journey!
Firesprite is headquartered in Liverpool, in the northwest of the United Kingdom. Founded in 2012, its vision is to create games that will bring new innovation to any experience we develop. The northwest region has a deep gaming history, and has produced many representative developers, publishers and games, such as “Magnetic Speed”.Many of us “Sprites“ Developed and shaped the works of this era, we are very proud of these foundations
We are very happy to cooperate with many talented developers and publishers throughout the industry, especially PlayStation has been our friend and co-development partner for the past ten years. We have worked together on many exciting projects, including ” “The PlayRoom”, “Run Sackboy! Run” and “The PlayRoom VR”.
PlayStation also gave us the opportunity to create our own IP “The Persistence”. We were given the creative freedom to explore, innovate and release a survival horror game that we are extremely proud of. Now, as a first-party studio, we know that we have the full support of PlayStation to promote our tradition of combining creativity and technological innovation to provide PlayStation fans with some truly unique experiences.
First of all, I want to thank PlayStation and their community for their warm welcome to this family of incredible creators.I also want to thank all of us “Elves”, Past and present, they helped shape the Firesprite we see today. I am proud of our Firesprite talents, you will continue to hear and see more news from all of us soon! We can’t wait to show you our work. We can’t wait to show you the results of our work…We are just about to start showing our skills! -Graeme Ankers, general manager of Firesprite |
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