Infinity Ward to become exclusive CoD dev

An extract I was reading today on CVG

'Infinity Ward will become the exclusive developer of the Call of Duty franchise following the release of Treyarch-developed CoD5, a former Activision employee has told Next-Gen.

Next-Gen learned from an ex-Activision Underground employee on Monday that Infinity Ward, developer of November's CoD4, recently prompted a renegotiation of its contract with parent Activision so that the studio would be the sole developer of the FPS series.

Treyarch will still be the developer behind the upcoming CoD5.

The renegotiation of the contract between Activision and Infinity Ward is also linked to the shuttering of the 45-person Foster City, Calif.-based studio, Activision Underground, said our source, who wished to remain anonymous.

Underground was working on two projects - a port of Quake Wars (described as "late and over-budget" by our source) and a new CoD game.

But the new CoD game wasn't going to be an FPS like previous franchise entries, rather a third-person action-adventure game spin-off that would also become a yearly franchise on top of the original FPS-style series.

However, with the renegotiation of the contract with star studio Infinity Ward, no other Activision studio is able to develop any CoD-branded game. This effectively canned Underground's CoD adventure spin-off.

Activision confirmed that Underground will be completely shut down by the end of May'

So, interesting! If its true, COD5 is going to be developed by the pants Treyarch that did COD3.

But, from then on, Infinity Ward will do all upcoming COD games, which should mean fantastic COD games!

So if this is true I'll skip CoD5 and wait for COD6, didn't really like CoD 3 that much....

I quite liked COD3 but this is definitely good news

i must confess i wasnt a big fan of cod 3, until the stunning game which is cod4 i still rate cod2 as one of the best fps games on the 360, multiplayer wise at least.

deemonch wrote:i must confess i wasnt a big fan of cod 3, until the stunning game which is cod4 i still rate cod2 as one of the best fps games on the 360, multiplayer wise at least.

Well I never played COD2 online, I had it but i got rid before I got connected to live

I might try and pick up a copy if i can get it cheap enough

get it blonde, it was the first big fps on the 360, and when you do it on vet you really feel like you have earned your acheivements coz its rock.