{"id":98736,"date":"2019-08-19T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348995"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:36:00","slug":"halo-infinite-and-halo-5-guardians-creative-director-has-left-343-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/halo-infinite-and-halo-5-guardians-creative-director-has-left-343-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo Infinite and Halo 5: Guardians creative director has left 343 Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Halo Infinite<\/em> creative director Tim Longo has left developer 343 Industries as part of a leadership reshuffle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/halo-infinite-creative-director-leaves-company-1837312778\">As reported by Kotaku<\/a>, and later confirmed by Microsoft, Longo was initially moved to a different position within the studio before his departure.<\/p>\n<p>He had&nbsp;been with 343 Industries for over six years, having also served as the creative director on <em>Halo 5: Guardians<\/em>. Prior to that, he oversaw the <em>Tomb Raider<\/em> reboot at Crystal Dynamics as franchise director.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on his departure, Microsoft explained the &#8220;roles and responsibilities of various team members regularly evolve to meet the needs of a game, throughout development.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our executive producer, Mary Olson will now take charge of the campaign team on <em>Halo Infinite <\/em>as the lead producer,&#8221;&nbsp;continued the company in a statement. &#8220;The overall creative vision and production of the game remains led by Chris Lee, studio head of <em>Halo Infinite<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halo Infinite creative director Tim Longo has left developer 343 Industries as part of a leadership reshuffle.&nbsp; As reported by Kotaku, and later confirmed by Microsoft, Longo was initially moved to a different position within the studio before his departure. He had&nbsp;been with 343 Industries for over six years, having also served as the creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98736","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\/98736","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=98736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}