{"id":13331,"date":"2018-02-20T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314808"},"modified":"2018-02-20T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:45:00","slug":"sledgehammer-games-co-founders-leave-for-internal-roles-at-activision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/sledgehammer-games-co-founders-leave-for-internal-roles-at-activision\/","title":{"rendered":"Sledgehammer Games co-founders leave for internal roles at Activision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sledgehammer Games co-founders and directors of\u00a0<em>Call of Duty: WWII<\/em> Michael Condrey\u00a0and Glen Schofield have left the studio to pursue &#8220;new executive duties inside Activision&#8221;\u00a0with Aaron Halon (founding member of the company)\u00a0taking over.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2009 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/117071\/Activision_Unveils_Bay_AreaBased_Sledgehammer_Games.php\">purchased by Activision shortly after,<\/a>\u00a0the studio was initially responsible for co-developing <em>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/em> with Infinity Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, co-founders of Infinity Ward Jason West and Vince Zampella\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/118996\/West_Zampella_Form_Respawn_Entertainment_Reveal_EA_Deal.php\">went on to form Respawn\u00a0Entertainmen<\/a>t\u00a0after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/28042\/Activision_Countersues_Scheming_ExInfinity_Ward_Heads.php\">fired from\u00a0Activision without warning.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/call-of-duty-studio-sledgehammers-co-founders-leave-com-1823171186\">by Kotaku<\/a>, Activision provided statements attributed to Condrey and Schofield following their departure from the studio, discussing plans for exploring new game ideas for the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before founding Sledgehammer Games, Condrey and Schofield ran the now-defunct Visceral Games, where they led development on\u00a0<em>Dead Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sledgehammer Games co-founders and directors of\u00a0Call of Duty: WWII Michael Condrey\u00a0and Glen Schofield have left the studio to pursue &#8220;new executive duties inside Activision&#8221;\u00a0with Aaron Halon (founding member of the company)\u00a0taking over.\u00a0\u00a0 Founded in 2009 and purchased by Activision shortly after,\u00a0the studio was initially responsible for co-developing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with Infinity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}