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Bungie's Marathon reboot gets new director as part of creative leadership shakeup


Bungie is reportedly in the midst of a creative leadership shakeup that has resulted in the studio replacing game direc…

Bungie designer Christopher Barrett was previously leading the project - described as a "sci-fi PvP extraction shooter" - but when reports began circling that he was no longer in the role, Joe Ziegler took to social media to confirm he was now in the game director's chair for Marathon. "For the last nine Months I've been working on Marathon as the game director," Ziegler wrote in a post on Twitter/X. According to IGN's sources, Ziegler's appointment is part of a creative leader shakeup at Bungie, which comes amid "ongoing anxiety" following last year's layoffs at the studio.

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