December 17^th, 2004 (10:40pm) - Martin Edmondson, the founder of wholly owned UK-based Atari development studio and the create of the Driver series, has announced that he will be departing from the company, but will continue to pursue game development.

"As of December 7th, I have resigned from my position as managing and creative director of Reflections Interactive," Edmondson told UK trade magazine MCV in a statement this week.

"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," he continued. "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."