Report: Infinity Ward co-developing Modern Warfare 3 with Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software

by Ben Gilbert on Jan 20th 2011 3:22PM

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare publisher Activision has repeatedly stated that Infinity Ward is doing fine since heads Vince Zampella and Jason West were ousted from the company early last year. A report on the LA Times' Company Town blog, however, tells a different story -- according to the piece, both Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software have been tasked with helping develop the next, still unannounced Modern Warfare title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

"People familiar with the situation" claim that Sledgehammer is working with the remaining staff at Infinity Ward on developing the game's single-player campaign, while Singularity developer Raven Software is in charge of bringing up the multiplayer side of things. The sources also contend that, like past Call of Duty titles, MW3 is expected to ship this November. Additionally, Sledgehammer is said to have halted production on its own spinoff Call of Duty title in order to help IW out.

Update: Activision issued a comment in response to the LAT piece, stating, "There's been much specultion recently. We look forward to releasing details for the next Call of Duty in the near future."

Source: Company Town blog

Tags: activision, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3, infinity-ward, microsoft, Modern-Warfare-2, pc, playstation, ps3, raven-software, sledgehammer-games, xbox

Reader Comments (103)

@kgoo867

When you use the term critical acclaim, you open yourself up to standards. Like it or hate it, Metacritic is the recognized standard for acclaim. Developers' bonuses are tied to Metacritic scores. Fanboys argue about the scores because they matter. It's an agreed upon standard.

Treyarch hasn't gotten even a 90 in Metacritic, whereas every AAA developer you can name has multiple games at 90 or higher.

If the "It's good but could be better" reviews for Black Ops translates to critical acclaim for you, great, but to make it stick you need outside support. Treyarch has no reason to laugh at anyone, yet, on that basis.

So I heard on The Modern Warfare 3 Forums that this is supposed to be based on Ghost. Can't believe they are not going with Soap or Price.

@Everyone on this comment chain.
Look i know some of you are against, some of you are for it, and some just don't give a flying duck. But you know what at least have some dignaty for the people who work hard to give you games!! I'm not much of a fan for COD anymore after Black Ops, but i will say over all COD is a great game and i am looking forward to any future games from (COD, Ghost Recon, Crysis, Splinter Cell, and etc.) But my point is don't rag on games you've never tried yet.

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