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Report: Dreams and LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule laying off 20 employees
24.10.2023 - 15:25 / gamedeveloper.com
Dreams and LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule plans to lay off around 20 employees, according to sources speaking to GLHF.
Those sources claim the layoffs were announced during an internal meeting that took place on October 24, 2023, and are the result of the PlayStation-owned studio seeking to reduce its headcount to 115 employees from its workforce of roughly 135 staffers.
That means around 20 jobs are on the line or around 15 percent of the company's workforce.
Game Developer has reached out to Media Molecule and PlayStation representatives to confirm the news and learn what kind of support will be offered to those being laid off.
There has seemingly been a spate of layoffs within the PlayStation Studios family in recent weeks, with Naughty Dog cutting around two dozen contract workers at the end of October and support studio Visual Arts also reportedly sanctioning a "wave" of layoffs.
In the case of Media Molecule, the studio appears to be in transition. A number of senior staffers have left the Dreams developer over the past 12 months, including co-founder and art director Kareem Ettouney and creative director Mark Healey.
The studio then ended live support for Dreams in September and explained it has struggled to figure out how the title could chart a "sustainable path" forward. Media Molecule now intends to begin working on a new project.
Layoffs have become increasingly commonplace within the games industry during 2023. In the past few months alone, major companies like Embracer Group, Epic Games, Virtuos, Keywords, Creative Assembly, Team17, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Roblox Corp, and more have all cut talented employees loose—and some of those companies have warned that layoffs will continue until the end of the fiscal year.
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