Halo co-creator joins EA to work on FPS video games

Among the makers of the Halo franchise is leading growth on a new FPS game from EA.

Marcus Lehto, that helped produce the Halo franchise and functioned as art supervisor on Halo, Halo 2, and also Halo 3, will certainly lead a brand-new workshop to be based in Seattle. In a post on LinkedIn (by means of GI.biz), Lehto stated that he was very delighted to reveal that I ve joined Digital Arts as a game supervisor, building a new workshop [...] functioning on first-person games.

GamesIndustry.biz states that Lehto s workshop will report to Vince Zampella, head of Apex Legends as well as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order developer Respawn Home entertainment, in addition to of DICE EA. There s no word on what the new team could be dealing with - the accessory to Apex Legends through Respawn and also Field Of Battle by means of DICE might be a tip of what s to find, yet whatever s showing up, the group s very first video game is most likely to be a long way off yet.

While his time at Bungie - which saw him function as the studio s creative supervisor - was undoubtedly effective, Lehto s latest job didn t live up to those same heights. In 2019, his workshop V1 Interactive revealed Disintegration , a hoverbike-based sci-fi shooter that had a hard time to build a substantial target market, resulting in the game s multiplayer servers closing down simply five months after the video game released , as well as the workshop doing the same in March 2021.

Last month, Lehto meant his go back to advancement, telling his Twitter followers that he would certainly be making some rather large decisions with his profession, which while a few of you will sustain it, some will certainly not. Exactly what some players may not support is an intriguing point of speculation; Lehto could be describing a substantial separation from the Halo series that helped establish his job, or EA s family member lack of appeal with players, but it can be a very long time till we figure out.