Bungie reportedly fired former Marathon director after misconduct allegations by female staff
Bungie fired its former Marathon game director after multiple allegations of misconduct by female staff, according to a new report.
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The sentiment around Marathon at Bungie is ‘not great’, it’s claimed
The mood at Bungie regarding its upcoming game Marathon is “not great,” it’s claimed.
Bungie promises to address the 'uncertainty' surrounding the future of Destiny 2 following massive layoffs last week
It hasn't been a good couple weeks for Bungie. At the end of July, the Destiny 2 studio laid off 220 employees, representing roughly 17% of its total workforce; shortly after that, a report surfaced alleging that Bungie CEO Pete Parsons had spent more than $2.4 million on vintage cars over the past two years; and shortly after that it came to light that hopes of avoiding layoffs by really nailing The Final Shape expansion were completely misplaced, because the cuts were reportedly planned regardless of the expansion's outcome.
Marathon development is reportedly facing trouble at Bungie: "There's a reason that it was planned for this year and slipped a whole year"
Marathon, the Bungie-developed extraction shooter, is reportedly facing production struggles, with some devs not confident the game will make its internally planned release target in 2025.
Sony’s Dark Horror Game By Firesprite Potentially Releasing on PC Day One
It's no secret that PlayStation has a ton of unannounced projects being developed, with one of them being developed by Firesprite. This game is set to be a single-player narrative horror. At the moment, there is no real information about this project.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is now CEO of one of those technically-not-gambling daily fantasy sports apps
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra, who stepped down back in January, has a new job: CEO of PrizePicks, a daily fantasy sports company.
More details emerge on Payback, Bungie’s cancelled third-person Destiny spin-off
More details have reportedly emerged on Payback, Bungie‘s now-cancelled project.
Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie
Two months before this week's mass layoff of more than 200 staff at Bungie, «Payback,» the codename for a third-person perspective spinoff project set in the Destiny universe, was cancelled in order to prioritize development of the upcoming Marathon extraction shooter, according to a report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.