According to Gamasutra’s job listings, Santa Monica is looking for designers with experience working on “open world” games. Also, vehicular combat along with first and third-person shooters.

However, the listing for Senior Combat Designers seeks those who can help the team out with “character and boss designs from concept to implementation.” Experience developing or designing vehicle combat is considered “a plus”.

It sounds like its pretty much official that Sony Santa Monica next-gen project is already in the making. Santa Monica also teased previously on twitter that they something new might be happening at E3.

Yesterday, Sony Santa Monica, announced a new title in cooperation with London studio Honeyslug called Hohokum.

The company’s last major title was God of War: Ascension which was a prequel to the critically acclaimed God of War franchise. You can take a look at God of War: Ascension review right here.

Keep your eyes peeled for Sony’s E3 2013 Press Conference, megatons will be happening in almost less than a month. Check back on GamingBolt for all the reveals soon.

According to a tweet by LucasArts’ creative director Clint Hocking, the developers are looking for people to start work on an “open-world RPG.” See the job listing here.

The firm is looking for a Gameplay Engineer to work on the game.

Hocking is currently working on an unannounced project- this might be it. Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated.

Dead Space developers Visceral games are looking for people to work on a “bold new action franchise”. “Visceral Games is looking for a senior Character Artist for a new action game franchise,” reads a job ad.

“This is a major opportunity to contribute to a bold new franchise, heavily backed by the EA Games Label.”

What do you think? Tell us in your comments!

A new job listing by EA says Visceral Games is looking for a new senior development director, audio director and senior VFX artist to work on the “Dead Space franchise.”

“This is a major opportunity to greatly contribute to an exciting unique franchise,” says the job listing. “Visceral Games is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Development Director for the Dead Space franchise. The successful candidate will have experience in video game production, with proficiency in project and personnel management.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for video games, with an overwhelming drive to create a world class gaming experience for a AAA franchise.”

Earlier this year, EA said there’s room for improvement in the Dead Spacde franchise.

“The Resident Evil series was awesome, the early versions were phenomenal. [Capcom] did a good job of growing the franchise to a very large market,” they said. I think we still have some areas to grow with Dead Space in terms of trying to reach a broader audience without losing the quality and that survival-horror mechanic.

“That’s how we’re going to think about it as we think about Dead Space 3 and what we do next with the IP.”

What do you think? Dead Space 3? Or a Dead Space spin-off for the Vita/3DS/Wii U?