{"id":91965,"date":"2019-04-12T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340731"},"modified":"2019-04-12T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:43:00","slug":"respawn-and-infinity-ward-co-founder-jason-west-has-joined-epic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/respawn-and-infinity-ward-co-founder-jason-west-has-joined-epic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Respawn and Infinity Ward co-founder Jason West has joined Epic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has made a notable hire in the form of Respawn and Infinity Ward co-founder Jason West.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffkeighley\/status\/1116715991088627714\">According to The Game Awards creator and journalist Geoff Keighley<\/a>, Epic brought in West around a month ago to help the company scale up its own internal development efforts. (<strong>Update:<\/strong> Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/gaming\/news\/jason-west-joins-epic-games-1203188178\/\">Variety<\/a>, Epic has since confirmed&nbsp;Keighley&#8217;s original report.)<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll no doubt recall, Epic has been busy of late, opening its own Steam rival called the Epic Games Store&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340018\/Borderlands_3_will_be_a_sixmonth_Epic_Games_Store_exclusive_on_PC.php\">filling it with a variety of big-name exclusives<\/a> like <em>Borderlands 3<\/em>, <em>Metro: Exodus<\/em>, and<em> Control<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether West will be working on existing projects like<em> Fortnite<\/em>, or new games that could be used to expand the Epic Games Store growing list of exclusives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you wondering why West left Respawn in the first place, the one-time <em>Call of Duty<\/em> overseer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/187709\/Jason_West_leaves_Respawn_Entertainment__report.php\">departed back in&nbsp;2010<\/a> to spend more time with his family, and before that was fired from Activision for alleged insubordination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has made a notable hire in the form of Respawn and Infinity Ward co-founder Jason West.&nbsp; According to The Game Awards creator and journalist Geoff Keighley, Epic brought in West around a month ago to help the company scale up its own internal development efforts. (Update: Speaking to Variety, Epic has since confirmed&nbsp;Keighley&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91965","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\/91965","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=91965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}