Curly Monsters Set to Rock With Jet:X

Upstart developer Curly Monsters, featuring six team members formerly of Psygnosis in the UK, has a new title in the works for the PlayStation, and we're about to tell you why you should care. The six-member team was a part of Psygnosis during the early 32-bit era, creating arguably the finest games that studio ever released. Titles such as Wipeout, Wipeout XL, and Colony Wars were in a large part masterminded by these individuals. Disillusioned by the direction that Psygnosis was taking, the team of six founded Curly Monsters. Under this new guise, the talented bunch is set to fulfill their creative yearnings.

Curly Monsters' first title, Jet:X, will take all of the elements that made this team's previous games so great - blistering speed, spectacular special effects, and top-notch gameplay - and completely amplify them. According to the game's designer, Nick Burcombe, "it's looking like being the best game I've worked on." Jet:X, which began development in December of last year, will be released on the PlayStation in the first quarter of 2000.

After Jet:X, there's no doubt about the direction Curly Monsters will be take - toward Sony's next-generation PlayStation. Burcombe, who first dove into the world of game design with the game Microcosm from Psygnosis for FM-Towns Marty (a relatively unknown console device), and then later for the PlayStation, commented in his developer profile that the "PlayStation 2 is the most significant hardware development in the history of this industry." He went on to say that the PlayStation 2 "will change the shape of the market forever and in a far more significant way than the PlayStation did. I'm really looking forward to developers realizing their ideas fully at last."

Having recently signed a deal with an unannounced publisher for Jet:X, the crew at Curly Monsters is set to rock the game world once again. You can be assured that we'll bring you further updates in the months to come.