Joe Staten, now formerly of Halo and Destiny studio Bungie.
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Halo veteran Joe Staten leaves shooter studio Bungie

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Joe Staten, one of the most seasoned game veterans from the team that brought us Halo and is now working on Destiny, has left Bungie after 15 years at the game studio.

Bungie announced the departure in a blog post Tuesday. Staten’s contributions helped make Halo into a blockbuster franchises that has sold scores of millions of games for Microsoft and generated billions of dollars in overall revenue.

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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.