The CEO and chairman of Destiny developer Bungie, Pete Parsons, is leaving the company after 23 years.
In a post on the studio’s website, the company vet wrote that he was stepping down and would be replaced by Destiny 2 general manager and chief development officer Justin Truman. There’s no word as to where Parsons is headed to next.
He joined Bungie back in 2002 – from parent company Microsoft – and was part of the studio management for the original Halo: Combat Evolved. Over the years he held various roles, including executive producer and chief operating officer, but in 2015 he was tapped to take on the CEO role.
“After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio, establishing the Bungie Foundation, and growing inspiring communities around our work, I have decided to pass the torch. This journey has been the honour of a lifetime,” Parsons wrote.
“I am deeply proud of the worlds we’ve built together and the millions of players who call them home – and most of all I am privileged by the opportunity to work alongside the incredible minds at Bungie.
“When I was asked to lead Bungie in 2015, my goal was to grow us into a studio capable of creating and sustaining iconic, generation-spanning entertainment. We’ve been through so much together: we launched a bold new chapter for Destiny, built an enviable, independent live ops organisation capable of creating and publishing its own games, and joined the incredible family at Sony Interactive Entertainment.”
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