SCE Worldwide Studios - Global Technology

The Global Technology division is dedicated to working with all the SCE Worldwide Studios development teams to create high quality, innovative, entertaining products through the provision of expertise, technology and creative services.

The technologies and services provided are used in all major WWS titles and are also available to our external development partners. The division also retains strong links with Sony Computer Entertainment International headquarters in Tokyo and develops several technologies which are released to all PlayStation® developers including a Scheduling IO system, a GPU performance analysis tools and a set of SPU optimised libraries.

The Global Technology division comprises several teams located in the UK and US. In each case they are co-located with WWS games development staff. Each team is responsible for maintaining a standard of excellence in the areas they work.

Graphics, audio, systems run-time and tools technologies are developed by the ICE team (based within the Naughty Dog studio in Santa Monica, CA), the Tools and Technology Group based in Foster City, CA, and the Advanced Technology Group based in the London and Cambridge studios. Examples of technologies they provide are graphics libraries, lighting and shading tools, file IO management systems, tools frameworks and asset pipelines.

The Online Technology Group provides network technology and expertise, both client and server, to the teams. Their focus is on providing large scale, high availability systems in areas such as matchmaking, real-time network play, ranking, file storage and moderation. They are located at the San Diego campus and London Studio.

The Services Group is based in the US and provides multimedia, sound, music and video arts services, including motion capture. Its aim is to provide world class, cost effective and timely, content, development and design services to WWS teams. It is located in San Diego and Foster City and at sound facilities in certain game studios.

The SHIP team, based in Foster City, is responsible for providing internal web-based communication, collaboration and sharing solutions for WWS.

The Global Technology organisation is an ideal place for personnel to perfect their technological skills in a supportive, collaborative environment. Teams have the satisfaction of knowing that their tools provide the backbone to many of the world’s most innovative and technically advanced games published across the PlayStation® platforms.