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Veteran Call of Duty developer and Studio Head at Treyarch, Mark Gordon, has stepped down following an impressive 20-year-long career spearheading some of the franchise’s biggest hits. Mark Gordon’s departure from Treyarch comes after a spree of notable departures from various Xbox studios following announcements that layoffs are coming to multiple departments.
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Announced on Twitter on June 15, 2026, developer Mark Gordon has retired from his role as Studio Head at Treyarch after an incredible 22 years at the company. The post by Treyarch’s official Twitter account notes that Gordon’s work spans some of Call of Duty‘s greatest hits, including Call of Duty 2: Big Red One in 2005, World at War, and the entirety of the Black Ops series, culminating in the recent Black Ops 7. In his place, Treyarch’s Kevin Hendrickson and Yale Miller, both of whom have been with the company for about a decade, will be Co-Studio Heads. No explicit reason was given as to why Gordon is departing, except that he would like to “focus on his next chapter.”
