Starship Group is a British digital media, entertainment and technology company based in

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, UK. The development studio, based in the city's

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area, specialises in creating next-generation original content across the

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, entertainment, lifestyle, virtual reality and

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sectors. The studio is an umbrella company housing several smaller studios each currently developing original content. Founded by

Evolution Studios Evolution Studios Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Runcorn, Cheshire. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington, following the purchase of their studio Digital Image Design's publisher Ocean So ...

and

Digital Image Design Digital Image Design (DID) was a British video game developer founded by Martin Kenwright and Phillip Allsopp in 1989. It was originally based in Runcorn, Cheshire in England. The company specialized in aircraft simulator games, mostly published ...

founder

Martin Kenwright Martin Kenwright is a British video game designer and the founder of British-based virtual and augmented reality innovation company vTime Limited, digital media, entertainment and technology company Starship Group, Starship, and video game devel ...

, the studio was established in 2013. Gathering together talent from renowned studios such as the now defunct

Studio Liverpool Psygnosis Limited (; known as SCE Studio Liverpool or simply Studio Liverpool from 1999) was a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher headquartered at Wavertree Technology Park in Liverpool. Founded in 1984 by Ian Het ...

and

Bizarre Creations Bizarre Creations Limited was a British video game development studio based in Liverpool, best known for their racing video game, racing titles ''Metropolis Street Racer'' (Dreamcast) and the follow-up Project Gotham Racing, ''Project Gotham Rac ...

, including former director of

Clemens Wangerin, alongside founding members from

, the founding team have collectively devised or delivered more than 69 games including

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launch titles and

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franchises such as

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, WipEout,

Project Gotham Racing ''Project Gotham Racing'' (''PGR'') is a series of racing video games published by Microsoft Studios, with four main titles all of which were developed by Bizarre Creations. It is the spiritual successor to Bizarre Creations' previous game ''Metr ...

, Blur, James Bond 007: Blood Stone,

Formula 1 Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one ...

and

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is an international rallying series owned and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA. Inaugurated in 1973, it is the oldest FIA world championship after Formula One. E ...

. The studio launched to the wider world on 26 March 2014. Starship announced first details of their first products CyberCook, Playworld and Forget-Me-Not in May, 2014. Children's mobile adventur
Playworld Superheroes
launched on iOS on 29 January 2015. The studio released Samsung Gear VR exclusiv
CyberCook
Taster, a demo of the world's first VR hyper-real cooking simulation, on 26 February 2015.

References

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