Bungie studio President Harold Ryan has stepped down.

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"I want to personally thank Harold for his friendship, passion, hard work, and dedication in helping make Bungie the great company it is today. As a team, we celebrated many victories and weathered many storms.



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Bungie's board of directors announced long-time COO Pete Parsons will now take over as CEO.Parsons posted the following statement on Bungie's website Earlier, Kotaku published a report claiming a planned, but unannounced, sequel to Destiny had been pushed back from its supposed September launch.Recently Bungie made matchmaking changes to Destiny to correct changes it had made previously. The changes to matchmaking are focused on correcting problems with lag players have experienced, and the corrections should be rolling out beginning today.We've reached out to Bungie for comment.: earlier we erroneously reported Harold Ryan was CEO when in fact he was Bungie's studio president, and Pete Parsons has been appointed to the new role of CEO.

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