God of War's Cory Barlog leaving SCEA

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Nov 6th 2007 at 9:25PM }

1UP reports that Cory Barlog shall not pass his SCEA Santa Monica colleagues in the hallway anymore, as he's decided to leave the studio in order to pursue other opportunities, none of which are likely to involve James Lipton. The game director most notably took the reins of the Grecian testosterone epic, God of War II, from David Jaffe (who also recently departed SCEA to form his own studio) and ultimately oversaw one of this year's finest PS2 games.

According to a Sony spokesperson, the publisher is grateful for Barlog's "work and creative vision for the critically acclaimed God of War franchise", but is also confident that the remaining team will successfully churn out "epic content with God of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP and God of War III for PS3." Yes, that's the same God of War III which remains officially unannounced but completely expected. Try not to muck it up, Mr. Barlog's replacement!

Tags: BreakingNews, CoryBarlog, God-of-War, GodofWar2, SCEA

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr Khan @ Nov 6th 2007 9:34PM

That picture is 5 kinds of win

gonk @ Nov 6th 2007 9:34PM

you can fight balrogs in lotro? nice

DemonGSides @ Nov 6th 2007 9:44PM

Not LotR:O

Its the last gen game, that came out after the movies were released.

You take the path of three very similar (but not quite the main characters from the movies) and your story interweaves with those from the actual story.

In this case, fighting the balrog with gandalf.

gonk @ Nov 6th 2007 9:46PM

oh, lame

gandalf beat the balrog solo :p

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Nov 6th 2007 10:58PM

I believe it was called LOR: The Third Age.

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 6th 2007 9:34PM

This franchise must be haunted. It keeps eating careers. Next thing you know Barlog is gonna make some downloadable pick-up-and-play games and bitch and moan about the review scores on his blog. Then he'll move out to the desert and disappear.

jake11 @ Nov 7th 2007 9:58PM

are those post-its on your face?

F. Rocker or Fernando R.? @ Nov 6th 2007 10:01PM

Yeah... he explain it to me that the post-it's gives him more contrast to his skin. Or something like that.

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 6th 2007 10:03PM

Of course they are! I needed a nice bright solid color for proper moustache contrast. It's long enough to stick in my eyes now.

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 6th 2007 10:07PM

Legend has it that once your moustache is long enough to stick in your ears, you get to be the king of Joystiq. Here's the full pic. Bask in my face power!

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1959/l71fbb41c36b5f6bb86547bjl6.jpg

F. Rocker or Fernando R.? @ Nov 6th 2007 10:14PM

Cool... you look like WaLuigi!

You look cool (Im saying it a good way, not in a gay way)

B1gC72 @ Nov 6th 2007 10:58PM

lol damn my tiny mustache...

cc123 @ Nov 7th 2007 12:36AM

Pink on baby blue on pink.

Thats hardcore right there.

;)

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 7th 2007 3:23AM

Hell yeah pink's hardcore! I have a matching pink Wii remote sleeve and a candy pink (Japanese import only) DS Phat (with a pink DS Lite rumble pak so my white DS Lite doesn't get jealous). And I bought the pink outer layer in Harajuku and wear it every day! And that's only 1 out of my 3 pink wifebeaters.

Count Noobula @ Nov 6th 2007 10:15PM

Rats leaving a sinking ship?

XanthouS @ Nov 6th 2007 10:53PM

Keep telling yourself that.

Mr Khan @ Nov 8th 2007 4:52PM

The console sales are a sinking ship (numerically and financially), but the God of War franchise is only growing in popularity after the awesome of God of War 2 (my bet for Best Action Game of 2007) and the coming PSP-maxing power of Chains of Olympus