Halo co-creator and Battlefield game director Marcus Letho has left EA.
Letho – who had been heading up Seattle-based Ridgeline Games, an EA studio devoted to the Battlefield franchise – has seemingly scrubbed all mentions of Battlefield and EA from their social media bio, in addition to up to date their LinkedIn to state they’ve now left EA.
As noticed by “Battlefield connoisseur” DANNYonPC and Insider Gaming, Ridgeline Games at the moment has no job openings on its careers site, and Ridgeline’s co-founder and artwork director, Chris Matthews, additionally left the studio in January 2024 to hitch Destiny developer Bungie as studio artwork director.
Lehto has not formally introduced their departure nor commented on their subsequent steps, however their exit has Battlefield followers questioning about the way forward for the shooter franchise. Lehto was broadly thought to have been introduced on to information the collection following Battlefield 2042’s lacklustre efficiency. Similarly, EA has not formally commented on Lehto’s departure, both.
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“For all its breadth and scope, Battlefield 2042 feels like the most muddled, compromised and confused entry in the series yet – a more existential problem than faced by the likes of Battlefield 4 through its similarly troubled launch,” the Eurogamer-editor-formerly-known-as-Martin wrote of Battlefield 2042 again in 2021.
“There’s a chance, though, that DICE can do what it’s proven to do so well in the past, with Battlefield 4 and then Battlefront 2 which faced controversies of its own. In Battlefield 2042 there are enough moments of that old magic – matched by some smart if unrefined new ideas – to suggest that, with a bit of finessing and focus, it might yet have a promising future.”
