Activision Confirms Departures, Announces 2 Call of Duty Games

March 2nd, 2010 admin

Activision Blizzard will release new games in the Call of Duty first-person shooter series in 2010 and 2011, plus a game that takes the series into the action-adventure genre, it said Tuesday. The details of the blockbuster war-game franchise follow the shocking news that Jason West and Vince Zampella, the top execs at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward, were ousted from the company . Activision confirmed the pair’s departure today but did not give any further details, although it said that two “Activision publishing veterans” …


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