Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | 21:26 GMT
Report: LA Times says Activision has third team working on CoD
According to a report from the L.A. Times, Activison has a third team working on the Call of Duty series, but fails to mention which studio has been handed the task or what it entails.
Apparently, Infinity Ward and Treyarch just aren’t enough.
As Activision seems to be discovering this year with Guitar Hero, there’s danger when a title is overexposed with too many iterations. Nonetheless, the publisher has aggressive expansion plans for Call of Duty. Although Infinity Ward and Treyarch have produced sequels in alternating years since 2005, the publisher now has a third development studio working on future versions.
Over on Kotaku, the site reminds us that CEO Bobby Kotick has “publicly expressed this thoughts on a massively-multiplayer online take on the series” and how CFO Tom Tippl says the company is looking into “additional online monetization models” for the franchise – so it could be anything, really.
The site also mentions that n-Space works on the portable versions and Certain Affinity helps out with Treyarch’s multiplayer maps. Then there’s studios Raven, High Moon, and the newly formed Sledgehammer, which all have experience with FPS games.
So again, it could be any one of these, or a new studio entirely.
We’ll send a mail off to Activision and see if anyone gets back with us.
Thanks, GoNintendo.
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22 comments
#1
Cort
18/11/09, 9:18 pm
I want CoD In Space. Will they do CoD In Space?
CoD In Space would be cool. Just as long as I get to fly a Space Shuttle.
#2
DarkElfa
18/11/09, 9:21 pm
A COD MMOFPS. The possibility boggle the mind..
#3
COG287PR
18/11/09, 9:21 pm
Ugh! as if Treyarch wasnt bad enough
#4
reask
18/11/09, 9:23 pm
Too lazy to click on link.
Any time frame given?
#5
Gekidami
18/11/09, 9:26 pm
Bet its a portable game.
#6
Cort
18/11/09, 9:27 pm
CoD Kartz.
#7
Phoenixblight
18/11/09, 9:37 pm
No its COD Sportz you will use the motion controllers to practice shooting.
#8
ShiroGamer
18/11/09, 9:45 pm
#9
Stephany Nunneley
18/11/09, 9:46 pm
http://www.cave17.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/02-bangalore.jpg
#10
reask
18/11/09, 9:50 pm
Thats terrible steph.
#11
freedoms_stain
18/11/09, 9:58 pm
If they milk the series too much with 3rd party developed games of poorer quality then they’re going to risk buyer apathy, which may start to hurt IW developed game sales in the long run.
#12
reask
18/11/09, 10:02 pm
How much more can it be milked?
#13
freedoms_stain
18/11/09, 10:03 pm
New game every 6 months :-p
#14
Dr.Ghettoblaster
18/11/09, 10:05 pm
With the record breaking success of MW2, isn’t this the equivalent of an insult to Infinity Ward..?
#15
Dr.Ghettoblaster
18/11/09, 10:05 pm
BTW – ACTIVISION…..your next COD game needs to be Vietnam done COD style. Thank you. That is all.
#16
MushroomStamp
18/11/09, 10:28 pm
Disagree totally.. War games from here on out should only be Modern or Future… The boring past has been done to death.
#17
Gekidami
18/11/09, 10:37 pm
Well it seems that Treyarch were apparently looking for Vietnamese and Cuban music so its probably happening. Dont know why so many so many people want it though, it was hardly as epic a war as WWII in terms of battles (and Cuban music? Were their any battles at all?) and you could argue that it wasnt exactly a ‘call of duty’ to…
#18
Dr.Ghettoblaster
18/11/09, 10:39 pm
Except COD series never did a Vietnam. They’ve got 4 WW2 games, and now 2 modern games. It’d make sense for them to cash in and leave their mark.
As to the “call of duty” remark in last post, war is war man. I don’t care how politicans care to define it. A group of people with weapons against another group of people with weapons, both with orders to kill each other, doesn’t make sense to discredit one over another despite variables involved. Just my honest opinion.
As for the music, I think some CCR, Hendrix, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, etc, all the time period pieces would make an awesome soundtrack!
#19
Mr Tom
18/11/09, 10:51 pm
Obligatory Penny-Arcade comic
#20
DarkElfa
19/11/09, 1:57 am
I could see them tackle Korea, but they’ll never do Vietnam guys. Could you imagine the reaction from the scene’s when American troops shoot small Vietnamese children. It was an ugly conflict…
#21
JonFE
19/11/09, 8:47 am
I *knew* I should have picked some lotto numbers instead…
#22
XxOsurfer3xX
19/11/09, 9:03 am
I would like to see those Activision Co**S*** tackle the dedicated server issue…. Stop making 7000 games a year and meke decent ones…