From an internal memo from Activision director Eric Hirshberg, it would appear that the publisher of Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward and Neversoft to merge. The new studio under the name Infinity Ward. The managerial duo of Neversoft occurs.
Website GiantBomb claims to be an internal memo from Hirshberg in your hands that he has written to the staff of both studios. Therein the director of publisher Activision, which owns both Infinity Ward, as the Neversoft, known that he the two businesses to merge. The two worked together in the development of Call of Duty: Ghosts and it turned out according to Hirshberg that the two companies ‘similar skills’. That was for Hirshberg reason for the two to merge into what he considered a ‘super studio’. The new studio will continue under the best known name; Infinity Ward. The step also has human consequences. Hirshberg sets Dave Stohl as director, to allow the current director of Infinity Ward, Steve Ackrich, a step back must do. Joel Jewett and Scott Pease, the duo at the head of Neversoft, get on and leave the games industry.
Neversoft is under his own name for 20 years. It achieved the first successes with a series of games around Tony Hawk. Between 1999 and 2007, the nine games around the skateboarder. Then it was Neversoft responsible for the Guitar Hero games. After Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, 2007, it would take another 7 games in the series deliver. When the market for ritmegames had collapsed, decided Activision to bring the studio to Call of Duty: Ghosts to make it work.
Where Neversoft and Infinity Ward to go work is not known, though it is probably a new Call of Duty game. Activision made earlier this year announced that every year a Call of Duty game, with three studios taking turns a game delivery. Infinity Ward and Treyarch delivered more Call of Duty games. Sledgehammer Games need to make sure that the studio’s still three years time for a game to work.
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