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**Others** · (This post was last modified: 03-04-2010 12:21 PM by Others.)

Yes they have brought in a 3rd studio to produce a CoD. Its called Sledgehammer Games out of CA. Here is an article from yesterday with some info about this stuff in it:

http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19761

Highlight of the post:

"The Call of Duty business unit will be led by Philip Earl, who currently runs Activision Publishing's Asia Pacific region and previously served in senior executive positions with Procter & Gamble and Nestle. Activision Publishing veterans Steve Pearce, chief technology officer and Steve Ackrich, head of production, will lead Infinity Ward on an interim basis. Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward."

"The company is also for the first time announcing that a new game in the Call of Duty series is expected to be released in 2011 and that Sledgehammer Games, a newly formed, wholly owned studio, is in development on a Call of Duty game that will extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre. Sledgehammer is helmed by industry veterans Glen A. Schofield and Michael Condrey. Prior to joining Activision Publishing, Schofield was the Executive Producer of the award-winning game, Dead Space and Michael Condrey was the Sr. Development Director on the game. The Dead Space franchise has won more than 80 industry awards worldwide including the prestigious A.I.A.S. Action Game of the Year and two B.A.F.T.A.S."

Here is Sledgehammers website: http://www.sledgehammergames.com/

**Kibble** · 03-05-2010, 01:20 PM

what little hope that was left for that brand has now died...

an action adventure COD... WTF is that.

Brunswick · 03-05-2010, 01:36 PM

Well then, it's over! RO2 and BC2 are our only hopes for the time being, it looks like.

**Watkins** · (This post was last modified: 03-05-2010 05:18 PM by Watkins.)

Seems like everything's working out just fine for IW and Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick is a happy man. They don't seem to mind that I'm giving DICE and EA my money anyways.

**Slaughtered** · 03-05-2010, 09:50 PM

Perhaps West and Zampella will get lean and mean and develop another title to rival COD.

And I want Unicorns.

**NightStalker** · 03-06-2010, 02:17 AM

(03-05-2010 01:36 PM)Brunswick Wrote: Well then, it's over! RO2 and BC2 are our only hopes for the time being, it looks like.

More like just RO2, I dont see BC2 lasting even half as long as WaW did.

**ryand** · 03-06-2010, 08:19 AM

(03-05-2010 01:36 PM)Brunswick Wrote: Well then, it's over! RO2 and BC2 are our only hopes for the time being, it looks like.

RO2 may not even make is assumed Q4 launch, that isn't really the time being lol. Our hope is BC2. That is all.