Infinity Ward is not creating Modern Warfare 3, according to a VG247 source, and is instead working on something “completely new”.

The details come from US insiders.

Infinity Ward has this far avoided the issue of its work after Modern Warfare 2, saying no decision had been made on further projects in the run up to the shooter’s launch last November.

“Right now we don’t have a clue what our next game is going to be, and we won’t know what it will be until we finish with Modern Warfare 2, which won’t be for a while,” studio frontman Rob Bowling told IGN UK last October.

MW2 DLC packs are scheduled to release this “spring” as a timed 360 exclusive.

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.

Rumour surrounding the Call of Duty franchise in general is escalating. A report yesterday claimed that Treyarch is currently putting together a story-focused, Vietnam-based episode in the series for release later this year.

treyarch was way better then iw what the hell.

IW aee f ups who can't develop a cod thats not full of hacks/glitches as far as developers go treyarch beats them by far.

mw was crap compared to w@w. mw2 is fun and the environments are better but w@w is still a more solid game.

mw & mw2 take 0 skill w@w is a true proving ground.

the amount of people who praise mw is annoying and they obviously where not playing since its release or they would have seen all tthe crap mw produced and still does.

w@w a a few issue but were all taken care of and remains solid.

hopefully mw2 will not get as bad as mw but I doubt it.

Mw is the best fps ever released so far imo.

WaW sucks IMO. people keep complaining about MW2 being too noob friendly. IW did this because they didn't want to make a game that only hardcore gamers could be good at like Treyarch did with WaW. The more noob friendly it is, the more people who haven't played games in the CoD series will buy it.