The Mm office is a melting pot of semi-organised creative chaos. Doodles, paintings and idea-splurges line the walls, scribblings on the backs of notepads lie abandoned in meeting rooms. And the desks of the Molecules are each as unique as the Molecule who lives there - covered in pen-squigglings and post-it note artwork.

We thought we’d share some of the awesomeness, which can be found quite simply littering the office, in our new blog feature: Found art.

Every so often, we’ll take a walk around the office, find some art, and put it on the blog for you to enjoy.

First up, is this envelope doodle from Mm’s Commander-in-chief doodler, Rex :)

In unrelated news, Spaff has been kidnapped by his girlfriend and taken to Copenhagen!

With a company birthday at hand, it was a perfect time to give our website a little makeover, and put it back together after some rather annoying spamhaxors destroyed it recently.

We’ve filled it up with some new bits and bobs that we hope you enjoy, the most poignant one today being the history section, which at the moment contains the first part of the Mm story, as told by mister Alex Evans.

Once up on a time, Dave, Alex and Mark all worked together at Lionhead studios. They had worked here together on many projects over the years, and now made up the R&D dept, building conceptual things such as ‘The Room’, stealing bits of Francis and Kareem’s time, and also working on their indie title Rag Doll Kung Fu in the evenings.

The Movies, Fable, B&W2 were in crunch at the time, and they were all under threat of being dragged off ‘The Room’, and being placed in the other various teams to help them ship on time. Having acquired a taste for making things their own way, they began considering their options. Alex especially, according to him, was looking to leave.

Oooh hot scoops… Check out the rest!

We’ve also got a new section called The Lab. This will run alongside this blog here as another place for us to write about the things that influence us, or things we’ve made, tech ramblings, stories, all sorts of things!

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Media Molecule was founded four years ago! Okay, okay so it was a few weeks ago now, but we waited for the new site to be ready, shh! We celebrated by piling into a local Italian eatery and plying ourselves with all manner of treats, meats, sweets and booze.

Two years ago, in January 2008, the gang here posted photos showing how the office had changed over the years

I tried to find someone to ask about the history of the yellow wall, but everyone looked mega busy, just at that moment however, Alex walked by and I pounced.

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Just before Christmas we blogged about LittleBigLand’s Create contest to make a level based on a famous fairytale, but with an LBP twist.

With over 90 levels submitted, a winner has been chosen, and a Sackboy has been crowned. Congratulations to mnniska, whose really quite awesome level - Little Red Riding Sack And the Sneaky H4Her  - took first place.

See the second half of the video, and check out all the runners up, over on LittlebigLand!

We make all of our own technology and tools, with one single focus…… making a great game! This is a unique opportunity to be an integral member of an efficient games team; where designing ‘cutting-edge’ solutions directly helps make our game fun.

We are seeking a passionate, technically proficient Network programmer.  Someone willing to ‘run with it’ and exceed our expectations, (and their own).

Some friends of ours have just launched their first game - Papermint.

It’s a crazy-yet-awesome-looking free-to-play social networking virtual world type thing, and we’re really looking forward to giving it a go!

Check out Papermint.com to find out more!

Thanks @rikfuzz :)

Mixing politics with fun and games is not something we’re keen to do, but when it comes to a cataclysmic event, such as the one this week that has left thousands of people in Haiti suffering, we think it’s up to every one of us to do as much as we can to look after one another

We will be donating some money to the various charities doing their best to help out, and we’re posting this here to ask if you might do the same. Pwetty pwease?

If you can spare even a small amount, then please check out this page on the BBC to find out how to help. Thanks all.

Are you snowed in? England is currently a wintery wonderland, and as the snow storms drift ever closer, we will soon be joining our friends at Sony Liverpool; snowed into the office, and forced to work harder to keep warm,

One fellow from the EU Playstation forums was bored of being snowed in and took it upon himself to make a Snow Sackboy…. it’s certainly one way of staving off the boredom!

Take care in the snow people! Unless you live in Australia or something and are currently sun bathing of course. Paint us jealous.