{"id":9072,"date":"2026-06-16T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/call-of-duty-studio-treyarch-is-losing-its-studio-head-of-nearly-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:49:14","slug":"call-of-duty-studio-treyarch-is-losing-its-studio-head-of-nearly-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/call-of-duty-studio-treyarch-is-losing-its-studio-head-of-nearly-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Of Duty Studio Treyarch Is Losing Its Studio Head Of Nearly A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Treyarch studio head Mark Gordon is retiring from the <em>Call of Duty<\/em> studio after 22 years, ten of which he spent as studio head.<\/p>\n<p>In a post today on Twitter from the official Treyarch account, the studio made the announcement, saying Gordon would be retiring from his role \u201cto focus on his next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark\u2019s impact on the franchise has been immeasurable, from <em>Call of Duty 2: Big Red One<\/em> and <em>Call of Duty 3<\/em>, to <em>World at War<\/em> and the entirety of the <em>Black Ops<\/em> series,\u201d the statement continues.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Mark. \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZhgY5mXeWc\">pic.twitter.com\/ZhgY5mXeWc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Treyarch (@Treyarch) June 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Gordon started in the gaming industry as a programmer, and was hired at Treyarch in 2005 initially as CTO, the same year Treyarch released its first <em>Call of Duty<\/em> game, <em>Call of Duty 2: Big Red One<\/em>. He became studio head in 2016 alongside Dan Bunting and Jason Blundell. Blundell departed in 2020 to found the since-shuttered Deviation Games, and Bunting departed in 2021 following a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> investigation into a sexual harassment claim filed against him years before, leaving Gordon the sole studio head through the releases of <em>Call of Duty: Vanguard<\/em>, <em>Modern Warfare 2<\/em>, <em>Modern Warfare 3<\/em>, <em>Black Ops 6<\/em>, and <em>Black Ops 7<\/em>, all of which Treyarch either co-developed directly or supported on.<\/p>\n<p>Current COO Kevin Hendrickson and director of production Yale Miller will take on Gordon\u2019s role together as co-studio heads. Both are long-time veterans of the <em>Call of Duty<\/em> series, both through Treyarch and Activision before it.<\/p>\n<p>                          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treyarch studio head Mark Gordon is retiring from the Call of Duty studio after 22 years, ten of which he spent as studio head. In a post today on Twitter from the official Treyarch account, the studio made the announcement, saying Gordon would be retiring from his role \u201cto focus on his next chapter.\u201d \u201cMark\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1318,5467,1319,4699,1212,8552],"class_list":{"0":"post-9072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-releases","8":"tag-call","9":"tag-decade","10":"tag-duty","11":"tag-losing","12":"tag-studio","13":"tag-treyarch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}