Halo Infinite Creative Director Departs Developer

Halo Infinite creative director Tim Longo departed from developer 343 Industries this week, Kotaku reported Friday.

Longo previously served as creative director for Halo 5, but had moved to a different role in the past few weeks of Halo Infinite development.

Microsoft confirmed Longo's departure Friday, releasing the following statement to Kotaku:

"Roles and responsibilities of various team members regularly evolve to meet the needs of a game, throughout development. We have recently had two changes to the Halo Infinite development team. Our Executive Producer, Mary Olson will now take charge of the Campaign team on Halo Infinite as the Lead Producer, utilizing her many years of experience at 343 to help craft a great campaign for fans.

"Additionally, Tim Longo has recently departed our team and we are truly thankful for his many contributions to our games, our studio and the Halo universe. We wish Tim nothing but the best in his future endeavors.

"The overall creative vision and production of the game remains led by Chris Lee, Studio Head of Halo Infinite.

We have a word-class team building Halo Infinite and the overwhelming positive response by fans has us energized, more than ever, to create the best Halo game to date, alongside Project Scarlett in holiday 2020. These changes have no impact to the release date for Halo Infinite."

Halo Infinite will release on Xbox One, PC and the next-generation Xbox, codenamed Scarlett. Microsoft has yet to announce a release date.

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