{"id":7491,"date":"2010-04-12T07:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7491"},"modified":"2018-08-09T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:07:40","slug":"respawn-ent-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/respawn-ent-formed\/","title":{"rendered":"Respawn Entertainment Formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9307\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9307\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9307 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/West-and-Zampella-S-e1429855628426.jpg\" alt=\"Jason West and Vince Zampella.\" width=\"390\" height=\"226\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason West and Vince Zampella.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">APRIL 12, 2010 \u2022 Former Infinity Ward leads Jason West and Vince Zampella form a new studio, Respawn Entertainment. To get the new operation off the ground, the development duo behind the Call of Duty series are receiving financial support from Electronic Arts. Respawn titles will be distributed through EA Partners, but intellectual property rights will be retained by the studio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: West and Zampella\u2019s firings have dominated industry news since announced in early March and the fate of the Infinity Ward studio is now in doubt.\u00a0 The immediate impact on Activision\u2019s next game in the Call of Duty series titled \u201cBlack Ops\u201d and developed by Treyarch (developer of Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War) is unlikely to be adversely impacted.\u00a0 Nevertheless, we wager that the Call of Duty franchise will never be the same without the core leadership, design and programming leaders who have since left Infinity Ward. The continuing defections from Infinity Ward won&#8217;t kill the series, yet it&#8217;s hard to see Modern Warfare III coming anywhere near the sales numbers of Modern Warfare II. So much of the success of the franchise is based on the attention to detail the original lead developers are known for, and there far too much press about their travails with Activision for mass consumers not to notice. The real challenge for the brand is that Activision has inadvertently helped create a potential competitive threat in Respawn, initially staffed by West, Zempella and over two dozen Infinity Ward defectors.\u00a0 Locking up distribution of Respawn is a huge win for EA, which dearly needs new AAA titles and the revenue they bring in. However, Respawn might not be able to deliver a compelling game until 2012.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 12, 2010 \u2022 Former Infinity Ward leads Jason West and Vince Zampella form a new studio, Respawn Entertainment. To get the new operation off the ground, the development duo behind the Call of Duty series are receiving financial support from Electronic Arts. Respawn titles will be distributed through EA Partners, but intellectual property rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,313,78],"tags":[161,53,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16863,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/16863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}