Bungie is reportedly within the midst of a artistic management shakeup that has resulted within the studio changing sport administrators on its PvP reimagining of basic 90s shooter sequence Marathon, with former Valorant sport director Joe Ziegler now confirmed to be within the function.
Bungie designer Christopher Barrett was beforehand main the challenge – described as a “sci-fi PvP extraction shooter” – however when experiences started circling that he was now not within the function, Joe Ziegler took to social media to verify he was now within the sport director’s chair.
“For the final 9 Months I have been engaged on Marathon as the sport director,” Ziegler wrote in a publish on Twitter/X. “We’re nonetheless baking, however I’m excited to share with you extra information on the sport as we get nearer and nearer to bringing it to all of you.”
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Based on IGN’s sources, Ziegler’s appointment is a part of a artistic chief shakeup at Bungie, which comes amid “ongoing anxiousness” following final yr’s layoffs on the studio. These layoffs noticed 100 Bungie workers lose their jobs in what Bungie boss Pete Parsons later described as a “unhappy day” for the studio – a press release known as tone deaf on the time.
Bungie’s layoffs reportedly adopted dwindling Future 2 participant numbers, alongside disappointing pre-order numbers for this yr’s The Last Form growth. Shortly after confirming the job cuts, Bungie introduced it was delaying The Last Form’s launch by 4 months, whereas Marathon – the studio’s subsequent huge live-service gambit – was delayed into 2025.
