Longtime Bungie head Pete Parsons steps down

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he’s leaving the institution 1 decennary aft taking connected the role. In an update on Thursday, Parsons wrote that helium has “decided to walk the torch” to longtime Bungie developer Justin Truman.

Parsons has worked astatine Bungie for implicit 20 years and led the workplace done the motorboat of Destiny 2 successful 2017, on with the merchandise of its large enlargement pack, The Final Shape.

In 2022, Sony Interactive Entertainment purchased Bungie for $3.6 billion. The workplace has since contended with the layoffs of hundreds of workers and delayed its extraction shooter Marathon pursuing lackluster alpha trial feedback. In May, an creator accused Bungie of utilizing their enactment successful Marathon without permission.

“We’ve been done truthful overmuch together: we launched a bold caller section for Destiny, built an enviable, autarkic unrecorded ops enactment susceptible of creating and publishing its ain games, and joined the unthinkable household astatine Sony Interactive Entertainment,” Parsons writes.

Truman joined Bungie successful 2010 and became main improvement serviceman successful 2022. He says the squad is “currently heads down” connected some Marathon and Destiny, adding that “we’ll person much to amusement you successful some of these worlds aboriginal this year.”