{"id":12383,"date":"2014-01-09T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12383"},"modified":"2014-01-09T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:14:07","slug":"ex-destiny-writer-joe-staten-returns-to-microsoft-halo-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12383","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Destiny writer Joe Staten returns to Microsoft. Halo involvement???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Staten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12382\" alt=\"Joe Staten\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Staten-600x337.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Staten-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Staten-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Staten-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Staten.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft studio manager Mike Ybarra\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxQwik\/status\/421411347553742848\" target=\"_blank\">has announced that<\/a>\u00a0Joe Staten is back at Microsoft Studios. Joe was formerly with Bungie where he worked on\u00a0<em>Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3<\/em>, and<em>\u00a0Halo 3: ODST<\/em>. He also wrote\u00a0<em>Halo: Contact Harvest<\/em>, and contributed to other various\u00a0<em>Halo<\/em>projects including the troubled\u00a0<em>Halo<\/em>\u00a0movie.<\/p>\n<p>He continued with Bungie after they left the\u00a0<em>Halo<\/em>\u00a0franchise\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/bungie-says-farewell-to-halo-with-a-ton-of-stats-224996.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">in 343 Industries hands<\/a>, and his next project would see him as writer and design director on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/the-first-real-details-on-bungie-s-destiny-revealed-245007.phtml\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Destiny<\/em><\/a>. Then on September 24 last year, Bungie announced that Staten had left the company to pursue new creative challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Joe is now at Microsoft Studios as senior creative director, but he&#8217;s &#8220;not working directly on the next\u00a0<em>Halo<\/em>\u00a0title&#8221; a Microsoft spokesperson has told Destructoid. Joe &#8220;will help create the world\u2019s best entertainment on Xbox, as well as help shape our franchise strategy for some Microsoft Studios titles. He\u2019ll also be one of our leading ambassadors to the game development community, building on his many years of experience and relationships with developers and fans. We\u2019re excited to share more about Joseph\u2019s role in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>HFFL:<\/strong> Hmm, I just can&#8217;t fathom Joe NOT working on Halo, now that he&#8217;s back with Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This article was first published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/ex-destiny-writer-joe-staten-returns-to-microsoft-268741.phtml\">destructoid.com<\/a>. (About 25 minutes before I reposted it, LOL)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft studio manager Mike Ybarra\u00a0has announced that\u00a0Joe Staten is back at Microsoft Studios. Joe was formerly with Bungie where he worked on\u00a0Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, and\u00a0Halo 3: ODST. He also wrote\u00a0Halo: Contact Harvest, and contributed to other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=12383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12385,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}