Former Bungie manager on the move from sci-fi shooters to football management

1 year 4 months ago

Last month, former Bungie veteran Jonty Barnes, alongside ex-Sports Interactive exec Neil Dejyothin and former English Football Association CEO Alex Horne, joined development start-up Formation Games.

While the studio was formed in 2021, it's been operating quietly for the last year building Club, a new football management mobile game slated to launch in 2023.

With Dejyothin and Horne's backgrounds in Football Manager and real-life Football Association respectively, it's clear how they ended up on the leadership team at Formation Games. For Barnes, a long-serving Bungie executive that worked as a producer on various Halo titles before moving on to Destiny, the transition, on paper, seems less obvious.

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Danielle Partis