Gears of War Narrative Director Joins God of War Studio - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 December 2023 / 4,668 Views

Bonnie Jean Mah, the former franchise narrative director for the Gears of War franchise, announced she has joined God of War developer Sony Santa Monica Studio as a narrative director.

"ALL RIGHT, let's do this...I'm SO excited to share my news: I've joined Sony Santa Monica as a Narrative Director," she said. "I’m beyond thrilled to be working with this team and studio. LET’S GOOOOO."

She originally worked in film and TV before joining the video game industry in 2008. She worked on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online as a writer and narrative designer.

Mah at The Coalition was also the narrative producer on Gears of War 4 and narrative designer forGears 5. She has also worked at Relic Entertainment as the narrative lead and lead writer on Age of Empires 4.

She most recently worked at Tencent's TiMi Montreal developing an unannounced open-world game.

Thanks, VideoGamesChronicle.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

12 Comments

Mystro-Sama (on 22 November 2023)

GoW > GoW

Qwark Mystro-Sama (on 23 November 2023)

GoW = GoW

LivncA_Dis3 Qwark (on 23 November 2023)

<GoW<GoW>GoW>

Spidermen pointing

DonFerrari (on 22 November 2023)

Well I do like GoW narrative and don't remember general praise for GoW5 narrative so I don't see this as much of a significant addition.

Leynos DonFerrari (on 22 November 2023)

Gears 5 ended on a really shitty cliffhanger. Then again that entire games story is pretty bad.

Vinther1991 Leynos (on 24 November 2023)

I wouldn't say it was a bad story, nothing special, but certainly an improvement over 4 when it comes to characters. But frankly, Gears 2 is probably the only game in the series that has a good story.

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rapsuperstar31 (on 22 November 2023)

With everyone seeming to be leaving all of these big developers from Naughty Dog, Bungie, Bethesda etc, it's nice to see some new hires added to a company.