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Activision Gives Sledgehammer Its Own Call Of Duty Game, Studios In Three Year Rotation

GI:Sledgehammer, which worked with Infinity Ward on Modern Warfare 3, will be taking the reins of its own Call of Duty title. The studio was founded by Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield, who previously worked with Visceral on the Dead Space series. Sledgehammer is leading this year's Call of Duty game.

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BehindGames3747d ago (Edited 3747d ago )

So no more COD until 2017?
Actually its kind of good news, the game will be better in three years of development.

famoussasjohn3747d ago

No, now 3 developers are doing COD in rotations. So it'll go Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and then Sledgehammer. Though it's possible you can switch Treyarch and Sledgehammer on who will come first. So each one will have their own release of Call of Duty, but will be 3 years in between each release of the respective developers.

waltonboy523747d ago

Sledgehammer will be 2014 then treyarch 2015. Activison confirmed it. Charlieintel.com but yes your correct 3 year cycle.

TomShoe3747d ago

I miss Treyarch. Ghosts is awful.

PSN-JeRzYzFyNeSt3747d ago

fuck i need to play some Nazi Zombies now i have to wait till next years wow..

Black ops is the only COD I've been buying

incredibleMULK3747d ago

Treyarch makes the best IMO. Infinity ward did good with mw2 and ghosts. Sledgehammer multiplayer was pretty boring in mw3. Campaign was OK though.

webeblazing3746d ago

3 devs working on COD this is just sad. So none of these devas deserve to work on an ambitious IP that they want? They been nursing someone's else baby for the longest. This is the worst.

WeedyOne3746d ago

On the bright side maybe the games will get more polish considering the individual studios will have 3 years between their version of COD to fine tune things. Either that or maybe they will have time to make COD and maybe 1 new original IP each during the 3 year span?

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daggertoes833747d ago

Yes it would but that will never happen.

pompombrum3747d ago (Edited 3747d ago )

Is it good news though? At present, Treyarch are the only ones making good COD games. So after their next one, we gotta wait 3 years before COD is worth playing again? Possibly a blessing in disguise as by the time their next one comes along, less dedicated COD players will probably find it somewhat fresh again.

LexHazard793747d ago (Edited 3747d ago )

Blacks Ops 1 to me is their best followed by world at war for introducing zombies!

Omegasyde3747d ago

More development time = (supposingly) better game as its not rushed. Madden or any annual EA game is an example of rushed product

Garethvk3747d ago

More likely a new engine and a new franchise so they can spend a year and change on the engine and then the rest on the game. Infinity Ward and Treyarch will keep cranking out the games until then.

Gasian3747d ago

Not the biggest fan of COD ,but this is good news. Hopefully some fresh blood does these games well and a longer development cycle hopefully means new ideas can actually make it into the game. :)

Globox20123747d ago

3 year rotation? Thank God.

I'm not the biggest fan of CoD however, a extra year will do wonder to freshen up the games, I often feel 2 years isn't enough time. And I doubt Activison want a Battlefield 4 fiasco where its released in a broken manner.

famoussasjohn3747d ago

We're still getting CoD every year. Nothings really changing other than another developer in the mix. Although they've already helped with the MW3 release since Infinity Ward was a skeleton crew with a good portion of them leaving to Respawn for Titanfall.

--Onilink--3747d ago

actually it does change because it means that each dev now has has 1 whole extra year for development.

Theoretically it should mean better games... who knows what will actually happen

4ShotKing3747d ago (Edited 3747d ago )

Great... Another Modern Warfare game... I was really hoping those WW2 rumors were true for the next CoD game, however the 3 year rotation is great news, 3 years is the sweet spot for development time, so I look forward to Treyarch's next game as they're the best developer out of the three IMO

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Please, can Call of Duty leave awful Netflix-style menus behind

Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.

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LucasRuinedChildhood13d ago

Let's just leave Call Of Duty behind.

anast12d ago

The isn't for you anymore.

BlackCountryBob12d ago

If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.

DefenderOfDoom212d ago (Edited 12d ago )

The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .

smolinsk12d ago

The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy0924d ago (Edited 24d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto23d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga23d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo23d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb198123d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan23d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8523d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra303022d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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