{"id":122980,"date":"2021-08-27T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/387606"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:20:00","slug":"fallout-76-project-lead-departs-bethesda-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/fallout-76-project-lead-departs-bethesda-after-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 76 project lead departs Bethesda after 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fallout 76&nbsp;<\/em>project lead Jeff Gardiner has left Bethesda Game Studios after 16 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jg93\/status\/1430893097844547600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who announced their departure on Twitter<\/a>, joined Bethesda in October 2005 and went on to work on some of the company&#8217;s most popular titles including&nbsp;<em>The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Fallout 3<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Fallout 4<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, they spent over three years working as the project lead on&nbsp;<em>Fallout 76<\/em>. There&#8217;s no indication as to where Gardiner is heading next, with the veteran developer explaining they&#8217;ll be &#8220;taking some time to reflect&#8221; before making any plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My time at Bethesda Game Studios has come to an end,&#8221; wrote Gardiner on social media. &#8220;It has been an amazing ride, from producing the designers on&nbsp;<em>Oblivion<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Fallout 3<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Skyrim<\/em>, to lead producer of&nbsp;<em>Fallout 4<\/em>, and finally project lead of&nbsp;<em>Fallout 76<\/em>. I will miss my co-workers and want to thank the amazing fans. Stay tuned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallout 76&nbsp;project lead Jeff Gardiner has left Bethesda Game Studios after 16 years.&nbsp; Gardiner,&nbsp;who announced their departure on Twitter, joined Bethesda in October 2005 and went on to work on some of the company&#8217;s most popular titles including&nbsp;The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,&nbsp;Fallout 3,&nbsp;Fallout 4, and&nbsp;The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.&nbsp; Most recently, they spent over three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122980","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\/122980","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=122980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}