During a financial call in May, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan let it be known that Sony intends to launch 12 live service games by Spring 2026. In January, we reported that Sony London Studios is working on one of the live service games. Now, we can add Dreams and Little Big Planet developer Media Molecule to that list.
Over on its official website, Media Molecule has a small handful of jobs that are directly tied to working on their creator game Dreams. These positions specifically mention Dreams. Then there is a slew of other jobs with no game mentioned. Media Molecule is hiring developers, engineers, and programmers with experience in creating, managing, and maintaining live service games. These positions do not specifically mention a game title as the Dreams jobs do.
Live Service Positions At Media Molecule
Development Director notes a description for the role, “You are an excellent people manager with proven experience as an accomplished engineer on live games across multiple platforms. You have experience and understanding of both the technical and organizational challenges involved in scaling technology solutions and teams for a game studio undergoing expansion.”
A Games User Research position notes, “An understanding of a live service product & the role of user research to support continued development is an advantage but not essential.”
Live Health Product Owner has responsibilities listed as, “Link live health, analytics and player experience to action across multiple studio teams.” and “Proactively champion user experience, including accessibility issues, and collaborate with user testing to ensure the team is aware and addressing usability issues that impact the live game.”
Media Molecule has only released one game in the past eight years. This does not include their assisting credits on Tearaway Unfolded and Little Big Planet 3. With that, they are overdue to release another title. The team is perfectly suited to create something for the upcoming PS VR2 headset. Undoubtedly, Sony could use some help in creating a live service for the platform. Something like PlayStation Home, or an equivalent to Oculus’s VR community hub, Horizons. We will have to wait a little bit longer to see what the new game really is.
