Peter Nowak: "I’ve been to a lot of video game studios, but Media Molecule’s offices may just be the most fascinating one yet. I’m visiting the British company on the auspicious mission of finding out what the future of games is, but the present – if my experience so far is any indication – is quite odd."
IGN writes: "Media Molecule has said the layoffs at the Sony-owned studio have affected plans for ongoing community and curation support in Dreams."
How self sustained can DREAM be when it's basically stuck on PS4? I don't think it's even gotten a PS5 upgrade. Ending support for what is essentially a game making engine is basically death. SONY did DREAMS dirty.
Staff at UK developer Media Molecule have today been told to expect job losses, with around 20 staff expected to be laid off. That's around 15-20 percent of the overall studio.
This sucks. Dreams was so amazing I was sure it was going to be integrated into PS5 in a meaningful way with the intention of fostering creativity in gamers. So disappointing to continue to hear news of that failure. Hope those impacted land on their feet and the studio finds passion in their new project...
Shame, Dreams was a cool concept and well done but it just wasn’t…how do you put it, a traditional game, if that makes sense. Spending so long on this game when in the end it felt more aimed at creators, which is fine obviously but I’d like to see something more traditional from them while another team works on the experimental stuff
I just can’t believe of all the PC ports Sony did Dreams was never one of them, the PC community might have had fun with it.
The problem with Dreams was the barrier to entry... had it been on PC, like I said with LBP so long ago, it would of soared like crazy.
My biggest complaint was the lack of support to create with friends. To my knowledge you still cannot not even create together, let alone play a game together online. How do you not support that on launch... which also leads into the barrier of entry, none of my friends even knew what the heck it was, and it was so hard to show them or get them into it.
Always suck to hear this kind of news.
Hope everything turn for the best for these affected.
Media Molecule Creative Director John Beech talks about making a very personal project in Dreams, available with PlayStation Plus.
I really like Media Molecule. I think they have what it takes to be one of the greats. At the moment I am just leaving them at good because all they have done is LBP (which I think it an amazing series) and I want to see them do something different (criteria in being one of the greats for me)
If a 3d Little Big Planet is revealed at Gamescom where I can sculpt 3d objects with a move controller. I will lose my mind. Possibilities would be endless!
Don't underestimate sackboy and media molecule
"LittleBigPlanet studio crafting the collaborative future of video games..."
as they should.
I herd LBP3 is gonna be a MMORPG