https://wccftech.com/playstation-studios-buys-firesprite-successor-psygnosis-wipeout/

While Sony has insisted they don’t want to get into an acquisition war with Microsoft, the company has quietly been amassing their own collection of new studios this year. They started with Housemarque, then added port specialist Nixxes Software, and now they’ve announced another addition to PlayStation Studios – Firesprite.

Firesprite is arguably Sony’s biggest acquisition of the year, as it’s the spiritual successor to one of Sony’s oldest studios, Psygnosis, which created series such as Wipeout, Lemmings, and Colony Wars. In the early 2000s Psygnosis was rebranded SCE Studio Liverpool, but was then was shut down in 2012. Most of the Psygnosis/Liverpool Studio bigwigs went on to found Firesprite, which has assisted with the Playroom series and created The Persistence in recent years (you can check out our interview with them about the latter here). Firesprite currently has over 250 employees, immediately making it one of Sony’s largest individual studios.