A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to PC Gamer that Halo’s franchise director, Frank O’Connor, has left Microsoft, telling us, “We thank Frank for his quite a few contributions to the Halo franchise and want him effectively going ahead.” O’Connor’s departure was first reported over the weekend by Home windows Central (opens in new tab), who seen that his LinkedIn (opens in new tab) had been up to date to indicate him leaving Microsoft for a brand new function at an unspecified firm.
Halo 3 government producers Harold Ryan (L) and Frank O’Connor settle for the Most Addictive Recreation Award Fueld By Dew for “Halo 3” at Spike TV’s 2007 “Video Recreation Awards” on the Mandalay Bay Occasions Middle on December 7, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Picture credit score: Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
O’Connor started engaged on Halo at Bungie in 2004, the place he wrote the “Bungie Weekly Replace,” a predecessor to the still-running Future bulletin “This Week at Bungie.” O’Connor left the corporate for Microsoft correct in 2008, after the discharge of Halo 3, the place he held the senior function of franchise inventive director, overseeing 343 Industries in addition to different studios engaged on numerous multimedia tasks within the setting. O’Connor can also be credited as an government producer for the Halo TV sequence.