Halo Co-Creator Marcus Lehto Opens New EA Studio Focused On First-Person Games

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has opened a caller EA workplace chiefly focused connected first-person games, astir 7 months aft the closure of V1 Interactive, which is the workplace founded by Lehto liable for Disintegration. 

Lehto founded V1 Interactive backmost successful 2016 with SOCOM co-creator Michael Gutmann. The workplace created Disintegration and portion the crippled showed a batch of promise, it wasn’t met with the reception the squad had hoped for. V1 Interactive announced that it was closing connected March 8 earlier this year. Now, a small implicit 7 months later, Lehto is backmost to making games, this clip nether the EA umbrella. 

Hey everyone, I’m precise excited to denote that I’ve joined EA arsenic a Game Director, gathering a caller workplace successful the Seattle country moving connected first-person games. I can’t hold to stock much astir what we’re creating. 

As Lehto mentions successful the tweet above, this caller workplace volition beryllium focused connected first-person games, which falls close successful enactment with Lehto’s Halo history. Perhaps he’s making a sci-fi first-person shooter for EA, thing the institution doesn't person excessively galore of astatine this moment. 

While waiting to larn much astir Lehto’s caller EA studio, cheque retired our thoughts connected his latest crippled successful Game Informer's Disintegration review and past read Game Informer’s breakdown of everything we cognize astir Halo Infinite.

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