Alan Hartman is looking his retirement, after practically twenty years with Flip 10 after which spending this final yr as the pinnacle of Xbox Sport Studios.
To take his place, Microsoft has tapped Uncommon’s now former studio head Craig Duncan, who’ll begin his tenure after Hartman leaves on the finish of November 2024.
Duncan has beforehand led Uncommon for 14 years in response to GamesIndustry.Biz, seeing the studio by means of pivotal releases like Sea Of Thieves which launched on the PS5 earlier this yr.
Now, Duncan’s affect will stretch throughout all of Xbox’s first-party studios, an inventory that not too long ago received loads longer and harder to handle with the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Duncan can even be charged with serving to carry Xbox Sport Studios by means of a transition to being extra of a multi-platform writer with former first-party exclusives now releasing on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms.
Filling Duncan’s footwear shall be two pairs of ft owned by Joe Neate and Jim Horth, every veterans at Uncommon themselves, with Horth having been with the studio for greater than twenty years.
Supply – [GamesIndustry.Biz]
