Brian Fargo; Game designer, developer, producer, founder of Interplay and InXile game development will be retiring after the release of Wasteland 3.
Brian Fargo Retiring His influence on gaming has been huge; Interplay game development was the founding company from which Black Isle and eventually Bioware arose. Interplay was also the
first to contract the very new Silicon and Synapse production house, run by friends of Fargo, Allen Adham and Michael Morhaime to produce a game called RPM Racing. Those two developer/producers would eventually change the name of their company and produce one of the most successful game franchises ever; World of Warcraft through their new company Blizzard Entertainment.
If you want to see the whole history, check out his Wiki page:
Brian Fargo Wikipedia Page