The Bungie Creative Studios team is moving to PlayStation to support live service games while continuing work on Destiny and Marathon

Bungie Creative Studios joins Sony PlayStation to support its live service games while continuing work on Destiny and Marathon.

Bungie’s creative team is officially moving to PlayStation Studios and continues to support Bungie’s projects like Destiny and Marathon. The move follows a wave of changes at the company, including recent layoffs, and is aimed at increasing PlayStation’s growing focus on live-service gaming.

The former Bungie creative team will now play a key role in building a new creative department at PlayStation Studios focused on accelerating development of upcoming live service games. Bridget O’Neill, previously Senior Director of Creative Studios at Bungie, announced the move on LinkedIn.

“Today was my team’s last day at Bungiebut not our last day working on Destiny (and Marathon),” the post reads.

“Bungie Creative Studios joins PlayStation Studios to lay the foundation for a creative team capable of supporting all PlayStation Live Service games. As part of this move, I will be taking on a new role as Senior Director of Creative at PlayStation Studios.”

Despite this shift, Bungie’s projects remain a priority. The team will continue to actively contribute to Destiny and the highly anticipated marathon.

This dual role promises to leverage the team’s extensive experience with Bungie’s live service challenges while also supporting other PlayStation studios on upcoming live service titles.

“This opportunity to share our experiences working on Bungie titles with other studios developing live service games is so exciting. Live service is difficult and presents a unique set of challenges. If PlayStation and Bungie work together, we can greatly accelerate the development of new games as they enter this highly competitive market.”

The integration of Bungie employees into Sony was first announced as part of the second round of layoffs earlier this year. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons said the company is “deepening our integration with Sony Interactive Entertainment and is working to integrate 155 of our roles, approximately 12%, into SIE over the next few quarters.”

In recent weeks, several directors and other employees have also confirmed their move to Sony to support PlayStation’s live service initiatives and continue to support Bungie with its projects.