While the legal conflict between Activision and two former senior employees of Infinity Ward rages on, Jason West and Vince Zampella have found a new studio under the name of Respawn Entertainment. West and Zampella are currently the only confirmed employees of Respawn Entertainment, and they fulfil the roles of President and General Manager respectively. This news was […]
Last month, Activision fired Jason West and Vince Zampella, the two most senior employees of Call of Duty-developer Infinity Ward, over allegations of insubordination. West and Zampella filed a claim for an amount in excess of $36 million dollars as well as the rights to all Call of Duty instalments set in the post-Vietnam era. […]
The fallout from Activision’s firing of Vince Zampella and Jason West seems to linger on. According to their respective LinkedIn business profiles, both Todd Alderman (Lead Designer) and Francesco Gigliotti (Lead Software Engineer) have left developer Infinity Ward after eight and seven years on staff, respectively. With Zampella and West landing representation with the Creative […]
Vince Zampella and Jason West, the recently fired heads of Infinity Ward, were signed by the Hollywood-based Creative Artists Agency. According to a story in the L.A. Times Blog, Creative Artists was just one of many Hollywood agencies looking to pick up the developers. From this setup, it’s likely that West and Zampella will have […]