How does Starhawk for the PlayStation 3 seamlessly transition between twitchy spaceship shooter to strategic ground-based build-and-battle gameplay? Lightbox Interactive's Dylan Jobe talks us through an entire single-player mission.

The long-awaited official reveal of Warhawk sequel Starhawk brought with it just as many questions as it did answers. For instance, where are those outer space battles we've been hoping for? Oh, they're in there!

Starhawk designer Dylan Jobe tells Eurogamer: "Shooters these days range between five and eight hours, depending on a play through. We're going to be in that range." This is for singleplayer. Multiplayer, of course, is much longer.

Following last night's official reveal of Starhawk, the interstellar sequel to/spin-off of Warhawk, Sony and developer Lightbox Interactive reveal even more details on this huge shooter.

The follow-up to 2007 PlayStation 3 futuristic dogfighter/third-person shooter Warhawk hasn't been a well kept secret. But it appears we may have gotten our first look at the spacey sequel, Starhawk, earlier than officially anticipated.

Informed sources tell Kotaku that newly minted LightBox Interactive Studio, made up of members of Incognito, are hard at work on a new take on Warhawk.

This morning Dylan Jobe announced that he and other members of Incognito Entertainment have left the company to form their own studio.

When Crecente shared tea and biscuits with Warhawk producer Dylan Jobe at GDC, he was told they were hoping to get the game's second expansion out by either the second half of March or the first half of April. Looking like it's the latter, as SCEA's John Hight told Gamasutra yesterday:

We just released an expansion on Warhawk in September, and we'll release another one in April.

April it is, then! The State of PlayStation Network: John Hight Interviewed

Warhawk's game director, Dylan Jobe, has posted some more info on the game's upcoming expansion pack, Omega Dawn. Also more info on the upcoming patch, and a possible expansion after this one. On Omega Dawn, he says you'll be able to buy it in-game from the Warhawk store, which is handy. On the patch (1.2), it'll go live on December 19 at 2:00am Pacific Time (simultaneous NA/Euro release), with the game servers down for six hours (2-8) while they roll it out. And on what comes next, he promises there's "new stuff in the works for ground troops", and that it'll be free. Can't argue with free. Warhawk: Omega Dawn FAQ