Press Play founders launch new studio Lightbulb Games

The founders of defunct Microsoft studio Press Play have opened a new development studio, Lightbulb Games.

The Copenhagen-based studio describes itself as a "small startup... with big ambitions", with its first game set to be a vehicle-creation game called Pioneers.

"Our vision is to create games we and someday our children will be proud of!" says Lightbulb. "We create games that you play with – not just play. Games that give players unrestricted tools and environments to create their versions of fun."

It continued: "Pioneers is a game about building complex machines out of simple blocks. With Pioneers we want to bring out the inventor in everybody and let them have an awesome time in a unique world of playfulness. We want make the construction game genre social on a new level."