After losing two of its co-founders last month, when Activision fired Vince Campella and Jason West, Infinity Ward is now without two more key developers of its Modern Warfare franchise, after Todd Alderman (Lead Designer) and Francesco Gigliotti (Lead Software Engineer) have decided to leave the company last week.
Both of them were long-time members of Infinity Ward’s staff as Alderman (heavily involved in Modern Warfare’s 2 multiplayer and story) has been with the company since January 2002 and Gigliotti since September 2002.

It seems that despite the fact that Activision is holding back Infinity Ward royalties in order to keep its staff from leaving, the Call of Duty developer is slowly losing its “core” members. It is not yet clear as to what went down that made Todd Alderman and Francesco Gigliotti to leave the company but, according to Kotaku’s sources, they both resigned.

The Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package DLC has been launched on March 30 on Xbox Live, not without its problems.While this is supposed to be only the first Modern Warfare DLC, it remains to be seen if any of the old Infinity Ward members will be around when (and if) the second downloadable pack will be launched.
Probably in an attempt to make it up to those that encountered difficulties in playing the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack DLC, Microsoft has recently sent a message to those that purchased the DLC on day 1, announcing them that their Gold membership will be extended for seven more days.