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Ex-dev leader Chris Barrett accuses Sony/Bungie of firing him to avoid a $45M payment (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chris Barrett was one of the prominent developers who was fired in March 2024 in the wake of the Me Too scandals that hit the game industry.

But Barrett, a game artist, filed a lawsuit today against his former employers Sony Interactive Entertainment and Bungie, alleging they fired him to avoid giving him a $45 million payment he said he was entitled to. We have asked Sony/Bungie for comment.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.