{"id":108724,"date":"2020-02-06T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357688"},"modified":"2020-02-06T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:04:00","slug":"rod-fergusson-is-jumping-from-gears-of-war-to-diablo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/rod-fergusson-is-jumping-from-gears-of-war-to-diablo\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Fergusson is jumping from Gears of War to Diablo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gears of War<\/em> boss Rod Fergusson, who&#8217;s worked on the series since the halcyon days of its chainsaw machine-gunning gameplay, is stepping away from the franchise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GearsViking\/status\/1225198381095456769?s=20\">per a series<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GearsViking\/status\/1225198634112704512?s=20\">of tweets<\/a> on his account, he&#8217;s heading to Blizzard Entertainment to head up the <em>Diablo <\/em>franchise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fergusson&#8217;s tenure of <em>Gears of War<\/em> saw the franchise move from its home at Epic Games to the Vancouver-based, Microsoft-owned studio The Coalition. During that time, the <em>Gears <\/em>franchise grew a reputation for sporting some of the finest accessibility features seen in triple-A games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leaving is bittersweet,&#8221; said Fergusson in his posts. &#8220;As I love our <em>Gears <\/em>family, the fans, and everyone at The Coalition and Xbox. Thank you, it has been an honor and a privilege to work with you all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gears of War boss Rod Fergusson, who&#8217;s worked on the series since the halcyon days of its chainsaw machine-gunning gameplay, is stepping away from the franchise.&nbsp; Now,&nbsp;per a series of tweets on his account, he&#8217;s heading to Blizzard Entertainment to head up the Diablo franchise.&nbsp; Fergusson&#8217;s tenure of Gears of War saw the franchise move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}