Bungie has hired Derick Tsai as its head of development for Destiny Universe Transmedia. 

Tsai has over 15 years of experience in the video game industry. Moreover, as shared by Destiny Bulletin on Twitter, Tsai previously was the director on Riot Games’ League of Legends animated shorts. As spotted by the Twitter account, Derick Tsai recently updated his LinkedIn profile with the role. As part of Bungie, he will be adapting the Destiny IP across a variety of “new mediums including film, TV, animation, books, comics, and audio formats.”

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— Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyNewsCom) January 31, 2022

Earlier this week, Sony acquired Bungie for $3.6 billion and Sony Interactive Entertainment head Jim Ryan says we should expect more acquisitions.

In an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz alongside Sony head Jim Ryan, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons said the platform holder offers Bungie the ability to accelerate its plans to take its IP to other mediums.

“You can’t help but look at Sony’s accomplishments, not just as a great platform, and having easily some of the best development teams in the entire world,” he said. “But also one of the greatest entertainment companies in the world. We saw this great opportunity to build — not just Destiny, we’re working on more than Destiny — these great interactive experiences, which we think we’re good at. But also being able to explore these worlds even more.”

“The first thing to say unequivocally is that Bungie will stay an independent, multiplatform studio and publisher. Pete (Parsons, CEO) and I have spoken about many things over recent months, and this was one of the first, and actually easiest and most straightforward, conclusions we reached together. Everybody wants the extremely large Destiny 2 community, whatever platform they’re on, to be able to continue to enjoy their Destiny 2 experiences. And that approach will apply to future Bungie releases. That is unequivocal.”

Source: GamesIndustry.biz