Bungie Inventive Studios has joined PlayStation Studios to help Sony’s push into stay service video games.
Bridget O’Neill, who beforehand served as senior director of Bungie Inventive Studios, mentioned the restructuring in a LinkedIn replace this week.
“As we speak was my workforce’s final day at Bungie, however not our final day engaged on Future (and Marathon),” she wrote.
“Bungie Inventive Studios is becoming a member of PlayStation Studios to construct the muse for a artistic workforce that may help all PlayStation stay service video games.
“As a part of this transfer, I’m taking up a brand new position as Senior Director of Inventive at PlayStation Studios.”
Bungie introduced in July that it was shedding 220 workers, or 17% of its workforce, alongside plans to additional combine with guardian firm Sony.
“First, we’re deepening our integration with Sony Interactive Leisure, working to combine 155 of our roles, roughly 12%, into SIE over the following few quarters,” mentioned Bungie CEO Pete Parsons.
“SIE has labored tirelessly with us to determine roles for as lots of our folks as attainable, enabling us collectively to avoid wasting an excessive amount of expertise that might in any other case have been affected by the discount in drive.
“Second, we’re working with PlayStation Studios management to spin out certainly one of our incubation tasks – an motion recreation set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe – to type a brand new studio inside PlayStation Studios to proceed its promising growth.”
Sony has skilled vital teething issues with its push into the stay service video games market, together with cancelling a Final of Us multiplayer recreation and pulling Harmony from sale after simply two weeks.
