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Report: Four more Infinity Ward employees leave studio

Lead designers Zied Reike and Steve Fukuda, as well as programmer Rayme Vinson, have left ailing Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward, according to "sources close to the studio" speaking with Kotaku.

xTruthx5151d ago (Edited 5151d ago )

I think this is for the best, the 2 bosses who got fired made Respawn Entertainment and IW employees are resigning. Hope every 1 in IW resigns and goes to Respawn Entertainment.

Mo0eY5151d ago

Kotick kicked himself in the balls with not paying the IW peeps. It paid off though - the sheeple bought Modern Glitchfare 2, and they seem to be enjoying their time trying out all the glitches so he got all that money.

Unfortunately, I love Blizzard's games so I'll be picking up Diablo 3 next year, but I will never spend my money on an Activision game after all of this crap he's put people through.

Rock Bottom5151d ago

Same thing here, hate Activision, love Blizzard's games, will buy Diablo 3 IF it comes out next year.

Oh! and StarCraft 2 Beta is love love love.

AAACE55151d ago

I'm right there with you, I hope all of them quit and go to Respawn! The only thing I don't like is Respawn are directly tied to EA. But I hate Bobby Kotick more than I dislike EA, so f it!

xaviertooth5151d ago

yep agreed mooey, just starcraft 2 and diablo 3 for me. just too bad blizzard has activition in its name but anyways.

i have never purchased any activision title this gen (yes including call of duty as i'm not into fps).

i hope respawn entertainment will try out something new and not fps this time. but its just me.

HammockGames5150d ago (Edited 5150d ago )

What's funny is that it's almost like he shot his cash cow himself.

Suits him right. Greedy fvck.

I hope ultimately he gets fired over this, too. The industry would be better without him.

Raz5150d ago

I bet he's feeling the sting of this epic fail now...goodbye, Activision, goodbye Kotick. You suck donkey balls, and now everyone knows it.

BTW: I might be trading in my COD discs. Battlefield BC2 is awesomely better with vehicles and a completely destructible environment.

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Pandamobile5151d ago

Maybe we'll get lucky and the whole studio will disband.

xTruthx5151d ago

Yah I hope activition loses all of its IW employees.

HammockGames5150d ago

Says Bobby =>

"We hired a new (cheaper, inexperienced) dev team so I can guarantee all our loyal fans that Cod for 2011 will remain exactly the same - and I mean glitch for glitch."

qface645151d ago

i can bet you 100 freaking virtual dollars once the remaining IW employees get their owed royalty checks they are gonna jump ship faster than the people on the titanic

xTruthx5151d ago

100 virtual dollars huh lol...... heres $1,000,000 virtual dollars for you. Don't spend them all at once :)

DarkTower8055151d ago

You've never been in a lawsuit before, have you? Activision is not planning on paying anyone any royalties. The best chance anyone has of getting any money is by jumping ship NOW and filing a class action lawsuit for those royalties which should have been paid long ago. By the looks of it, that's what's happening.

GamerPS3605151d ago

The original 2 who were fired signed with EA already :(

kornbeaner5151d ago

No they didn't. Most of the OG IW crew is made up of ex-EA people from the medal of honor series. They did not go back after this debacle with Activision.

GamerPS3605151d ago

EA will be producing games from "respawn entertainment" which is the studio they built/are building.

duplissi5150d ago

respawn is an independent studio with an exclusive publishing deal with ea.
in other words they have complete creative freedom.

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai20h ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Rynxie7h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows904h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie4h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_20h ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot11h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

thesoftware7307h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic24m ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Redemption-649h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows904h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing699h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman8h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

richardmmorales19m ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake2d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1011d 14h ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne1d 11h ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake1d 7h ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave1d 7h ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage1d 7h ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex1d 3h ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos1d 1h ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno1d 7h ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos1d 1h ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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How EA & Xbox Are Defining Gaming's Bleak Future

Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.

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Profchaos4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.

Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.

If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard

As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights

gold_drake21h ago

i can tell you that the government or any government has our backs on this. the glo al trend goes to digital.

wait until money is digital only. we are already on the way there.