Joe Ziegleruntil recently director of Valuing in Riot Gameshas announced his departure from the studio to go to Bungieresponsible for Destiny.
Zielgler already confirmed his departure from the studio a couple of weeks ago through some now-deleted tweets in which he did not quite specify his destination, although he did take the opportunity to thank the studio for his 12 years within the company. Now, he confirms that following his departure a few days ago he is already at the Bungie offices, where he is working on “new things that, hopefully, one day everyone will be able to play.”
The developer is not exactly an unknown face within the industry, even more so considering the enormous success of Valorant, whose initial idea was born from Ziegler himself, which accumulated more than 14 million active players every month during its first year on the market. , following its launch in June 2020. Although his career at Riot Games began in 2010, he also went through studios such as Killspace Entertainment or Pandemic Studios (Destroy All Humans!) taking charge of design functions, and has been in the industry since 15 years ago.
Despite the fact that in the publication he does not specify his new tasks, both in his Twitter biography and in are LinkedIn confirms that he will once once more have the role of director within this upcoming unknown project. What we know is that Bungie is currently working on Eclipse, the seventh expansion for Destiny 2 scheduled for February 28, although it seems clear that those “new things” Ziegler is working on might be far from the Destiny saga.
The insider Tom Henderson, who has already had some other great successassured a couple of months ago that Bungie has plans to bring back the Marathon saga, which is currently in a pre-alpha state, according to their sources.
