{"id":5439,"date":"2025-08-21T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bungies-veteran-ceo-pete-parsons-is-leaving-the-company\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:59:36","slug":"bungies-veteran-ceo-pete-parsons-is-leaving-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bungies-veteran-ceo-pete-parsons-is-leaving-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungie&#8217;s veteran CEO Pete Parsons is leaving the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he&rsquo;s leaving the <em>Halo <\/em>developer after working at the studio for more than two decades. In Parsons&rsquo; place, Justin Truman, a general manager on <em>Destiny 2<\/em> and Bungie&rsquo;s chief development officer, is taking over as studio head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">&ldquo;After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio, establishing the Bungie Foundation and growing inspiring communities around our work, I have decided to pass the torch,&rdquo; Parsons shared in a statement on Bungie&rsquo;s website. &ldquo;Today marks the right time for a new beginning. The future of Bungie will be in the hands of a new generation of leaders, and I am thrilled to announce that Justin Truman will be stepping into leadership as Bungie&rsquo;s new studio head.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Parsons oversaw Bungie during a consequential period in the studio&rsquo;s history. Bungie started publishing its own games under his leadership, ending a longterm publishing deal with Activision that helped get <em>Destiny <\/em>released. Parsons also played a role in the studio&rsquo;s $3.6 million acquisition by Sony, which placed Bungie at the center of plans to develop live-service games for the PlayStation &mdash; a move that hasn&rsquo;t really paid off so far.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R3bljlr4kutrilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R5bljlr4kutrilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Bungie has faced notable difficulties since coming under Sony ownership. The studio&rsquo;s relative independence did nothing to spare it from having to lay off 220 employees in 2024. Developing Bungie&rsquo;s next game, <em>Marathon, <\/em>has also seemed like an uphill battle. The game was delayed indefinitely earlier this year following the discovery that the alpha version of <em>Marathon <\/em>used stolen art assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Truman&rsquo;s new leadership role suggests <em>Destiny 2<\/em> will remain a going concern for Bungie. It might also signal a new relationship with Sony and PlayStation Studios. During a recent earnings call, Sony CFO Lin Tao said Bungie would be less independent in the future, and eventually &ldquo;become part of PlayStation Studios,&rdquo; <em>PC Gamer <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Bungie&rsquo;s veteran CEO Pete Parsons is leaving the company<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he&rsquo;s leaving the Halo developer after working at the studio for more than two decades. In Parsons&rsquo; place, Justin Truman, a general manager on Destiny 2 and Bungie&rsquo;s chief development officer, is taking over as studio head. &ldquo;After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bungies-veteran-ceo-pete-parsons-is-leaving-the-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bungie&#8217;s veteran CEO Pete Parsons is leaving the company&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}