{"id":90383,"date":"2026-09-30T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90383"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:39:00","slug":"activision-should-hire-former-halo-devs-for-next-mainline-game-former-franchise-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90383","title":{"rendered":"Activision Should Hire Former Halo Devs For Next Mainline Game, Former Franchise Director Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/halo-next-game-is-coming-from-an-unexpected-developer-activision\/\">development of future Halo games is being handled by Activision Blizzard&#8217;s hands<\/a>, some former developers of the series have spoken out to share their thoughts on the shocking but not entirely surprising mix-up. This includes the former franchise creative director, who has provided some salient advice to the Call of Duty publisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank O\u2019Connor has worked on Halo for over 20 years, first working as a writer and community manager before serving as the game&#8217;s franchise creative director from 2003 to 2023. This is a guy who knows Halo like the back of his hand, and with all that series expertise, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7508874098853203968\/?dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287508979896719769600%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7508874098853203968%29\">took to LinkedIn on September 25<\/a> to share some thoughts on how to make the next Halo great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Pro-Tip: Do NOT tie it to hardware\/services launch cycles, do not try to force it into a shape (or aging platform) that it can&#8217;t fit and do NOT abandon sandbox,&#8221; O\u2019Connor said in response to Xbox&#8217;s former social media manager, Genevieve Harrison, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/gennymharrison_i-saw-a-post-yesterday-arguing-that-microsoft-activity-7508874098853203968-iFoy?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAzL_5IBgZ6I_4A5NmRZTOD0GL8iJhU9x_Q\">pontificating on Activision Blizzard&#8217;s development tactics<\/a>. &#8220;Pro-Pro-Tip: Hire Bungie, Halo Studios and other laid-off folk who are bursting w. talent and ideas that got nerfed or shut down over the years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In laying out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that development of future Halo games is being handled by Activision Blizzard&#8217;s hands, some former developers of the series have spoken out to share their thoughts on the shocking but not entirely surprising mix-up. This includes the former franchise creative director, who has provided some salient advice to the Call of Duty publisher. Frank&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":90385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90386,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90383\/revisions\/90386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}