Today's Microsoft layoffs jogged the memory of Halo veteran and freshly laid-off Marathon designer Dan Callan, who says former Xbox boss Don Mattrick demonstrated how gaming executives "just live on different planes of reality" compared to people making games.
In a Bluesky post, Callan recalls demoing Halo 4, on which he was a mission designer, to Mattrick. "I was showing off my mission and when the Mantis showed up with its new cool intro vignette he raised his hand and said to the group, 'Has anyone here played... Diablo 3?'"
