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[Update: Respawn has confirmed Zampella's departure, stating that "Jason has left Respawn to take care of some family issues."] The termination of Infinity Ward's Vince Zampella and Jason West from the Activision payroll back in 2010 was a very public, very ugly situation. There were lawsuits, allegations, counter-allegations, and bitterness to spare. The only upshot of the whole thing was that West and Zampella went to form a promising new studio called Respawn Entertainment. Ironic, considering that Activision was formed under similar circumstances by disgruntled Atari developers back in the 1979. Reports are now pouring in that West has left Respawn. No official statement has been released, but word is going around that West left the studio back in 2012, but has not yet made this departure public. Other reports state that he's left the studio on good terms to spend more time with his family, and that he may be retiring from all game development employment, at least for now. There's also no official word on what will become of Respawn's planned title for EA, though reports state that it'll make an appearance at E3 this year. Call of Duty Co-Creator Jason West Has Left His New Studio [Kotaku] Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
1:25 PM on 05.21.2013 Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC heading to Xbox One firstKeeping with the already established trend, DLC for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts will be headed to Microsoft's Xbox One first. Like always, it will come to other consoles later, but if you want that hot Call of Dut...
1:00 PM on 05.21.2013 Next-gen arrives with Call of Duty: GhostsI have seen the future, and I'm here to tell you that it's a bit different from what you're probably expecting. Actually, I've seen two different futures. One is Infinity Ward's version of our country's future, in which Ameri...
11:35 AM on 05.21.2013 First look at Call of Duty: Ghosts trailer on Xbox One[Update: Official trailer has been added.] The new Xbox is on center-stage today, but the new Call of Duty game swooped in a few minutes early and stole a bit of the spotlight. Thanks to a leaked advertisement, we now k...
1:30 PM on 05.16.2013 Diablo III celebrates its one-year anniversaryWell, it's been a series of ups and downs (that could have all been avoided if the Auction House was taken down), but Diablo III is now one year old. To celebrate, Blizzard is adding 25 percent extra Magic Find and experience...
6:30 PM on 05.15.2013 These are the 20 best-selling brands from this gen[Update: Telltale is mistakenly credited for the LEGO games in the source report, but it should be Traveller's Tales.] French game studio Ubisoft released its fiscal year 2013 earnings earlier today, trumpeting its tidy profi...
11:30 AM on 05.14.2013 Raphael SMASH in this TMNT: Out of the Shadows trailerThe bad boy of the Turtles makes his proper debut in a new trailer for Activision and Red Fly's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Compared to Mikey, Raph is a lot more aggressive and brutal -- watch him Izuna...
11:00 PM on 05.09.2013 Black Ops II's multiplayer is free on Steam this weekendThere's a little special on Call of Duty: Black Ops II over on Steam where you can play the multiplayer component for free all weekend long. Yup, you have full access and not only that, the game is 33% off on Steam right now....
4:15 PM on 05.08.2013 World of Warcraft drops 1.3 million subscribersOffering a status update on World of Warcraft during an earnings report, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick revealed that the popular MMORPG lost 1.3 million subscribers during the quarter -- "mainly from the East, but in t...
12:00 PM on 05.08.2013 The Deadpool game is a lot of dumb, immature funDeadpool has been a favorite of mine ever since I got into Marvel comics years ago. So I was pretty delighted when High Moon Studios announced it'd be working on a Deadpool game. The studio has done a rather good job with the...
3:15 PM on 05.02.2013 Sledgehammer suggests it isn't working on CoD: GhostsGiven its prior work on the franchise, it wasn't unreasonable to expect Sledgehammer Games to be involved with Call of Duty: Ghosts. That does not appear to be the case, however. "Congrats to Infinity Ward on [Ghosts]! O...
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