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Infinity Ward Loses Two More -- One Lead Designer, One Software Engineer

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Posted April 7, 2010 - By pklepek




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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward, who recently lost leadership over an internal dispute with publisher Activision that's now in litigation, has last two more employees.

Kotaku originally broke the news, citing the Linkedin profiles of lead designer Todd Alderman and software engineer Francesco Gigliotti. Both Linkedin profiles reflect working at Infinity Ward as part of their "past" employment status. Neither has updated with their future plans.

Alderman has worked at Infinity Ward for more than eight years. Gigliotti had been at the studio for nearly as long, clocking in just under eight years with the Modern Warfare developer.

Infinity Ward Loses Two More -- One Lead Designer, One Software Engineer Infinity Ward Loses Two More -- One Lead Designer, One Software Engineer

It's unclear if Alderman and Gigliotti have left as a consequence of former Infinity Ward studio heads Vince Zampella and Jason West leaving. An internal Activision memo obtained by G4 indicated Activision suspected Zampella and West were in conversations with Electronic Arts.

I'm a little late on reporting this one, but I wanted to make sure G4 readers were aware of the latest developments. Keep your eyes on G4 for more, as the status of Infinity Ward changes.

Source: Kotaku

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  • BONERJAM

    I'm betting all these IW guys are going to form a new company and finally get to that sci-fi title they've been wanting to do.

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:22 AM
    BONERJAM
  • cmdluke

    "I'm a little late on reporting this one, but I wanted to make sure G4 readers were aware of the latest developments."

    Apparently you people can't read.

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:16 AM
    cmdluke
  • EKG

    Why are you only reporting this now? This is beyond old news. Your going into lazy territory now Xplay!!

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:13 AM
    EKG
  • EKG

    Why are you only reporting this now? This is beyond old news. Your going into lazy territory now Xplay!!

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:13 AM
    EKG
  • UltraViolence74

    Didn't this happen yesterday morning?? Way to be on top of things Feed.

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:12 AM
    UltraViolence74
  • ZyloWolfBane

    The way its starting to look now is Activision got their High end profit seller and they are dumping all of the original staff so they can do whatever they want with the franchise.

    Get ready for new re-iterations of the same game and increasingly higher DLC prices like with Guitar Hero folks, its the beginning of the end for CoD (As if the community and hacks werent already bad enough).

    Pretty soon you'll start seeing disputes over at Treyarch, unless they will be submissive enough to allow Activision to make them sellout.

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:09 AM
    ZyloWolfBane
  • tsglass

    Good! Fire them all! They deserve it after the poop sandwich they released.

    Go Team Activision!

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:07 AM
    tsglass
  • CALiiGeDDon

    Sucks for modern warfare...maybe now they can make the multiplayer better. COD4 is the best COD out there and WaW is one of the worst.

    Posted: April 7, 2010 11:05 AM
    CALiiGeDDon

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