The creator of the Driver series has quit the Atari-owned Reflections Interactive development studio.
Martin Edmondson founded Reflections in 1984, with the company being acquired by the Infogrames group in 1998, following the studios success with Destruction Derby on the original PlayStation platform. It subsequently enjoyed significant success with Driver, Driver 2 and Stuntman, with the studios latest offering, Driv3r, released earlier this year.
As of December 7th, I have resigned from my position as managing and creative director of Reflections Interactive, confirmed Edmondson to MCV. Having founded Reflections in 1984 and enjoyed almost two decades of creative and commercial success there, I still feel a great sense of attachment to the studio and am very sad to leave. Reflections remains home to a team of talented and committed people and I wish them all a great deal of success in the future. It is too early for me to announce my own plans, but I fully intend to carry on creating original IP and bringing successful games to market.
MCV understands that Edmondson remains on good terms with the individuals at Atari and that he has already begun preliminary discussions with other publishers regarding future projects.
Atari declined to comment.
