Chris Barrett, a top executive at one of the video game industry’s leading studios, was fired this spring after being accused by multiple employees of inappropriate behavior, according to people familiar with the matter.
Having started at Bungie Inc. in 1999, Barrett rose through the ranks as an artist and then director on the popular Halo And Fate franchises and served on Bungie’s board of directors before the company was purchased by Sony Corp. Group for $3.6 billion in 2022. Until last summer, he was also the director of Marathonwhich the studio hopes will become its next big gaming franchise. But in late March, he abruptly left the company.
