Huge Shakeup At Infinity Ward
Big news in the Call of Duty world. The 2 heads of Infinity ward have been ousted by Activision. Things have been test for awhile between Infinity Ward and Activision but I don’t think anybody expected this. Yesterday afternoon a few security guards “Bouncer Types” as the initial reports put it. By the way I used to be a bounce was that an insult. If so i’ll teabag those sons a bitches.
Right now it’s been confirmed that Vince Zampella and Jason West the two head of Infinity Ward are no longer with the company. This is huge news considering they are behind the biggest blockbuster game of all time Modern Warfare 2. I can’t wait to learn all the details on this shocking development.
Activision has revealed some of their plans after this shocking announcement.
1. Activision is forming a dedicated Call of Duty business unit. Like their blizzard entertainment business unit this will allow them to grow the Call Of Duty brand in new directions.
2. They have announced the next game in the series will be out this fall and is being developed by Treyarch. We all knew this but it’s nice to get official word. Now maybe they will give us all more details on the game.
3. Infinity Ward is still scheduled to be releasing 2 map packs this year. It will be interesting to see how this shakeup at the studio effects the map packs.
4. In 2011 they will release yet another Call Of Duty game from an unnamed developer. So does this mean that Infinty Ward is getting the axe?
5. There will be another call of duty game released by Sledgehammer Games. The recently formed developer that is being headed by Dead Space creative leads Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey. It will be interesting to see where this team will take the call of duty series. I loved Dead Space and a creepy Call Of Duty would be great. It’s going to extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre.
So what are your feelings on this? I can’t really say what I feel on the whole firing situation til I see exactly what was going on. But the new directions the franchise is going in excited me. It’s a great series and having new blood injected into it might be a good thing.
