According to a source close to VG247, Infinity Ward will not be the development studio behind the expected third release in the Modern Warfare series. This comes as a bit of a follow-up to statements made last October by Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling in which he stated that they "do not have a clue what our next game is going to be."
While it seems unlikely that Infinity Ward would so readily give up the Modern Warfare series that they made popular, anything is possible. Nothing is confirmed in the Call of Duty universe, so take this news and the news about the Call of Duty: Vietnam with a grain of salt.
It's unclear where the third game will be made if IW really has gone AWOL from the series.
We were told by one dev source that a Canadian studio was handling it, but another pointed to newly-formed Sledgehammer Games, headed by ex-Visceral bosses Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey.
Sledgehammer, based in the Bay Area, is currently recruiting for a multiplayer designer with "five years experience working on current AAA multiplayer shooters for current consoles and PC."
The identity of Sledgehammer's first project is yet to be announced.
Activision's only Canadian developer is Vancouver-based Radical Entertainment, the studio behind last year's free-roaming adventure, Prototype.
We were told by one dev source that a Canadian studio was handling it, but another pointed to newly-formed Sledgehammer Games, headed by ex-Visceral bosses Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey.
Sledgehammer, based in the Bay Area, is currently recruiting for a multiplayer designer with "five years experience working on current AAA multiplayer shooters for current consoles and PC."
The identity of Sledgehammer's first project is yet to be announced.
Activision's only Canadian developer is Vancouver-based Radical Entertainment, the studio behind last year's free-roaming adventure, Prototype.
While it seems unlikely that Infinity Ward would so readily give up the Modern Warfare series that they made popular, anything is possible. Nothing is confirmed in the Call of Duty universe, so take this news and the news about the Call of Duty: Vietnam with a grain of salt.
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