Bungie fired its former Marathon recreation director after a number of allegations of misconduct by feminine workers, based on a brand new report.
Earlier this 12 months former Valorant recreation director Joe Ziegler introduced that he had taken over as Marathon recreation director, amidst reviews that former recreation director Christopher Barrett had left the corporate.
A brand new Bloomberg report now claims that Barrett was fired by Bungie after being accused of inappropriate behaviour.
Barrett – who had beforehand labored as an artist, artwork director and recreation director on the Halo and Future video games – was assigned as recreation director on Marathon earlier than leaving the corporate in March, as per earlier reviews.
Nevertheless, Bloomberg’s sources now declare that the rationale for Barrett’s departure was a termination following an inner investigation, wherein at the least eight feminine workers raised complaints that he had behaved inappropriately in the direction of them.
In line with the report, Barrett was stated to have informed lower-level feminine workers they had been engaging, requested them to play Fact or Dare, and steered that he might assist them to advance their careers due to his wealth and energy within the studio.
In an announcement to Bloomberg, Barrett stated of his two and a half a long time at Bungie: “I really feel that I’ve all the time performed myself with integrity and been respectful and supportive of my colleagues, lots of whom I contemplate my closest buddies.
“I by no means understood my communications to be undesirable and I might have by no means thought they may probably have made anybody really feel uncomfortable. If anybody ever felt that manner about their interplay with me, I’m really sorry.”
Bungie’s dad or mum firm Sony Interactive Leisure didn’t give a touch upon the precise case however stated it took “all complaints of misconduct very significantly”.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier (the creator of at present’s new report) claimed the temper at Bungie concerning Marathon is “not nice”.
“There’s a motive that it was deliberate for this 12 months and slipped an entire 12 months, and people who I’ve talked to are somewhat pessimistic about it even hitting its present deliberate deadline,” Schreier stated. “However we’ll see. I don’t know precisely when that’s, someday in 2025, I’m unsure.”
He added: “Yeah, the sentiment, I’ve heard, is just not nice round it, at the least of some months in the past.”
