Joseph Staten departed from Bungie back in September after fifteen long years of working at the studio. However today it has been announced via twitter that Joseph Staten (Lead Halo and Destiny Game Writer) has rejoined Microsoft. You can see in the tweet below from the Studio Manager at Xbox: Mike Ybarra that it is indeed confirmed. Frank O’ Connor has revealed that Joseph Staten will be working as the Senior Creative Director at Microsoft Studios and it does not look like he will work on Halo at this time.

Thrilled to welcome back Joe Staten to the Microsoft Studios family. #XboxOne — 🎄Mike Ybarra☃️ (@XboxQwik) January 9, 2014

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