Singularity Games/Development teams

This is a list of development teams in Singularity Games, usually focusing on specific projects. In addition of housing them, Singularity also hosts blogs for them.

Early years (2018-2020)
On January 1, 2018, Singularity Games acquired some staff and the video game development, animation, visual effects, art and creative production operations of Salovaara & Kukkonen Group. They also acquired Laserium Game Studios in Moscow, Sydney, Toronto, Chicago, Austin, Manchester, Vancouver, Paris, Halifax, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Hamburg, Riverside, Dublin and Annecy, with all of their projects in development or pre-production. They also acquired Laserium Game Studios' pinball and mobile divisions, Game Agent's Los Angeles game development studio, MPS Labs, CedarMaple Australia, Live Interactive's office in Sydney and its studios Adrenium Monsoon (Toronto) and Black Ship Games (London).

In March 2018, they acquired and merged Laserium Game Studios' Shanghai and Tokyo studios into their Redwood City studio.

In April 2018, the Cheltenham studio acquired staff from Dambuster Studios, Fishlabs, Crytek, Techland, Virtuos, Exient Entertainment, Rockstar Studios, Feral Interactive, Nixxes Software, Chimera Entertainment, CGBot, Rmory, The Imaginarium Studios, Turbulent, voidALPHA, Wyrmbyte, FaceWare Technologies, IllFonic, Wushu Studios, Hyperion Entertainment, Creative Assembly, Splash Damage, Sumo Digital, King Digital Entertainment, Playdemic, TT Fusion and TT Animation. They also hired a few people who worked on Sailfish OS to help with porting, while acquiring Starbreeze UK from Starbreeze Studios, the Warsaw development studio from Ubisoft and staff from Gameloft.

The Redwood City studio, in the meantime, acquired staff from King, Massive Black, Mercenary Technology, Gameloft, inXile Entertainment and WB Games, while the New York studio hired staff from OtherSide Entertainment, Harebrained Schemes and King.

On April 27, 2018, Singularity Games Cheltenham completed the acquisition of development studios in Chertsey and Vienna from Ubisoft and by 2018, Singularity and its predecessors acquired studios in Valencia, Hyderabad, Helsinki, Guadalarja, Chengdu, Santiago, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, New York, Milan, Stockholm, Jogyakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, New Orleans, Seattle, Tokyo, Hanoi, Da Nang, Shenzen and Madrid from Gameloft, with nine game developers: nSpace, Handheld Games, Shaba Games, RedOctane, Luxoflux, Budcat Creations, Underground Development, the 3DO Company and Edge of Reality.

In May 2018, Singularity Games announced to open a satellite studio/temporary development studio in Vancouver, with staff from Bandai Namco, Behaviour Interactive, Valve Corporation, Digital Eel, Raven Software, Digital Extremes, Virtuos, Capcom, Gearbox Studio Quebec, Super Punch Productions, Rockstar Studios, Piranha Games and Techland; another one in Austin, with staff from Triptych Games, Gearbox Software, Aspyr Media, Glu Mobile and Certain Affinity; and another one in Tokyo, with staff from Nintendo, Arika, Crafts & Meister, DotGears, XPEC Entertainment, Bandai Namco, Sega, Level5, Gameloft, Sparx Animation Studios & Virtuos, Arzest, Studio Khara, Aniplex, Studio Trigger, Intercept and DiNG, ArtPlay, Racjin, Konami and Bandai Namco. These studios were set up to contribute to the development of Mirage, and also hire students from nearby universities (and sometimes select, if they are a great distance from the studios).

In June 2018, they acqui-hired Mind Storm Studios (Pakistani game developer), Team UltraTurbo (a racing game development team), Snakecore (a localization, porting and game assurance company based in Germany, Japan and Russia ), Origo Games (console game developer), Cloudsauce (a cloud computing company) and Solid Pirate Ninjas (puzzle game developer, now working on casual games as well), all based in California. Their staff was merged into the Redwood City studio shortly afterward, but they kept their brands for their respective teams.

They also acqui-hired (former) employees of Microsoft Studios (e.g. from Rare (like Chris Seavor and Grant Kirkhope), Carbonated Games, Team Dakota and BigPark), Zynga (e.g. NaturalMotion, Zynga with Friends studio), and Team Ico + Project Siren/Team Gravity; some employees from Liquid Development, Gl33k, Autodesk, RAD Game Tools, OC3 Entertainment, Audiokinetic, Firelight Technologies, Havok, Wargaming.net, GameInsight, Zynga, Zenimax (from studios such as Arkane and id), Carbine Studios; all former employees of KMM Games/Team Bondi; all employees of Bluepoint Games, Monster Games, Next Level Games, Retro Studios, Carbine Studios, Riot Games, PlatinumGames, Fatshark, Stunlock Studios, Left Field Productions, Game Freak, Armature Studio, Iron Galaxy Studios, BlitWorks, Yingpei Games and Force Field; all 15 employees from Babaroga, a Chicago-based studio; and independent developers PadogaWest Games and Headcannon; and former employees of Ensemble Studios and Kojima Productions/Konami Los Angeles; as remote part-time employees.

They also hired developers of such mods as Project M and Newer Super Mario Bros Wii, and composers Graeme Norgate, Steve Burke, Robin Beanland, David Doak and Tomoki Miyoshi.

In July 2018, Singularity Games merged their New York, Austin, Vancouver and Tokyo studios into the Redwood City studios, after completing work on Mirage. Also, staff was moved from the Cheltenham studio to Redwood City studio once again; this time it was over 99% of the staff, leaving only 5 game developers.

On August 2018, Singularity Games established a label; Psyclapse, where they'll released remakes of classic games. They will release two games through the label, however the games are yet to be announced.

Virtual Arcade Men
The team specializes n developing minigames and "80s arcade-ish" video games to be played inside Singularity Games' projects. This team only exists as a temporary unit for when games need to include easter eggs (in this case, arcade cabinets) in order to make the gameplay more fun. They aren't signed to develop any original games outside of the Singularity Game Jam.

Team Smash Fight & Co
On August 2018, Singularity Games announced to merge Origo Games, Iris Force, Omixron, Mind Storm Studios, Cloudsauce, Snakecore, Solid Pirate Ninjas, Adrenium Monsoon, Team UltraTurbo and MPS Labs with some of it's acqui-hired employees into a new development team, later called Team Smash Fight & Co.

Awero Studio
This team develops Moving Mountains, a JRPG-like adventure game. Led by Airi Suzume.

RedOctane
On August 2018, Singularity Games established RedOctane, the team that focuses on arcade games and hardware development.

Cheltenham
More coming soon.

Singularity Games Tokyo Animation (2018)
Around early 2018, Singularity Games acquired Dan Wicker's anime studio Denime KK, which would later be turned into the Tokyo satellite studio for animation, and later on, game development.

Iris Force
This team specializes in original handheld games.

Omixron
This team specializes in free-to-play games.