Some devs working on Marathon have also been laid off and studio head Justin Truman has stepped down.
There are bad things happening over at Bungie. Sony just announced a major round of layoffs, primarily impacting the team behind the Destiny franchise. We don’t know many employees were impacted, only that it was a “significant number.”
Sony says it “explored multiple alternatives before concluding that a reduction was necessary to align the studio’s resources with its current priorities and long-term goals.” This comes directly after the final content update for Destiny 2, and was likely already in the works before that. We learned via Bloomberg‘s reporting back in May that developers weren’t working on Destiny 3 and that Bungie layoffs were likely forthcoming.
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