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Activision has now officially responded to the reported shakeup at Infinity Ward.

The publisher has confirmed studio heads Vince Zampella and Jason West have left the company. There was no mention of "insubordination" or "breach of contract" in Activision's statement.

Activision Publishing CTO Steve Pearce and head of production Steve Ackrich are temporarily in charge of Infinity Ward.

According to the release, Infinity Ward will move forward on developing two downloadable map packs for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that will come out this year

A new Call of Duty is coming from Treyarch Games later this year. What we didn't already know, however, was Activision's intentions for Sledgehammer Games (headed by former Visceral Games developers Glen A. Schofield and Michael Condrey) to release a brand-new Call of Duty game "in the action-adventure genre" sometime in 2011.
No setting or gameplay details were revealed for either upcoming Call of Duty product (but we all suspect Vietnam) , but the "action-adventure" description suggests it won't be a first-person-shooter.

Activision also vaguely discussed intentions for the future of the series, which include pulling the Call of Duty franchise under a singular business unit. Activision also intends to "expand" the Call of Duty brand similar to what Blizzard Entertainment has done with its franchises.

This lines up with Activision's public intentions to eventually release a subscription-based Call of Duty game. According to Activision, this change "will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models."

"2010 will be another important year for the Call of Duty franchise," said Activision Publishing president and CEO Mike Griffith in a brief statement. "In addition to continued catalog sales, new downloadable content from Infinity Ward and a new Call of Duty release, we are excited about the opportunity to bring the franchise to new geographies, genres and players."

So what do you guys think?? Is the the new beginning of the Call of Duty series??
Also, The whole "action-adventure" quote intrigues me?? what do you guys think it means??

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Its the Illuminatis I TELL YOU!!!

Damn no more FPS? Now headed to an action genre. You got to be kidding me? Say good bye to one of the best FPS out there. IN with the new won't really work IMO.

I totally agree with you. If it moves away from FPS it's not a new beginning, it's the end of what we love to play. 3rd Person Shooters are kinda cool to play, but it's not the same...

actually, if you any of you have been paying even the slightest attention, CoD will Remain a FPS!

u ding bats, remember over two months ago Activision in an interview said that they are looking to bring in a 3rd developer to make a sort of MMO CoD, this is what they are talking about, its all old news just re written, jesus people keep up with the times


seriously, acting like a bunch of NGB plums

lol they should make a cod: American civil war lol there running out of wars to use so i think they should hold back Vietnam and keep mw2 out for awhile

This sounds suckish and not so good looking out over the bizarre future of CoD. Maybe they quit because they was how godawful a 3rd person, subscription based cod will be...

If that happened they would give us a MAG like game.
MAG is probably the worste fps shooter i played. ive played better ps2 games than that.

COd is dead... :O

sounds like the end of cod to me

wow! there ruining the cod series. i dont want 3rd person shooter games