Alan Hartman is calling his retirement, after nearly two decades with Turn 10 and then spending this last year as the head of Xbox Game Studios.
To take his place, Microsoft has tapped Rare’s now former studio head Craig Duncan, who’ll start his tenure after Hartman leaves at the end of November 2024.
Duncan has previously led Rare for 14 years according to GamesIndustry.Biz, seeing the studio through pivotal releases like Sea Of Thieves which launched on the PS5 earlier this year.
Now, Duncan’s influence will stretch across all of Xbox’s first-party studios, a list that recently got a lot longer and more difficult to manage with the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Duncan will also be charged with helping carry Xbox Game Studios through a transition to being more of a multi-platform publisher with former first-party exclusives now releasing on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms.
Filling Duncan’s shoes will be two pairs of feet owned by Joe Neate and Jim Horth, each veterans at Rare themselves, with Horth having been with the studio for more than two decades.
Source – [GamesIndustry.Biz]