{"id":5759,"date":"2010-04-13T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"infinity-ward-loses-employees-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5759-infinity-ward-loses-employees-fast","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Ward loses employees, fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Call of Duty Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward may be falling into disarray.<\/p>\n<p>Following the resignation\/firing of studio founders Vincent Zampella and Jason West several months ago the Activision owned studio has endured a number of walk outs. The most recent of these include lead designer Mackey McCandlish and Call of Duty series programmer Jon Shiring, only a week after two high ranking developers also chose to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After almost 6 years at Infinity Ward, I resigned today,&#8221; revealed Shiring who added that &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly proud of everything we accomplished and I&#8217;m going to miss everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the recent announcement that Zampella and West are setting up a new studio has given way to rumours surrounding the resignations.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime however Activision has filed a counter suit against Zampella and West claiming that the two &ldquo;morphed from valued, responsible executives into insubordinate and self-serving schemers who attempted to hijack Activision&#8217;s assets for their own personal gain.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infinity Ward loses employees, fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}