Activision executives confirm new first-person installment in series will arrive in latter half of next year; no word on developer.
Today, Activision Blizzard issued a better-than-expected earnings report in which it announced a $51 million quarterly profit. In a conference call with analysts afterwards, executives revealed further details on the publisher’s future plans.
One detail that was revealed was that the Call of Duty series will once again have a fresh first-person installment late next year. “We will launch a new first-person action title during the back half of 2011,” Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said. This sentiment was later echoed by Activision COO Thomas Tippl, who said that “Next year’s Call of Duty will be a first-person shooter.”
The executives did not name the game or which studio was developing it. A likely suspect is Modern Warfare 3, which court documents identified as being in development at Infinity Ward as of May. That same month, Activision said the studio, which had lost over 35 members following the firing of its founders in March, continued to work on its “next big project.”
A second Call of Duty is also in the works from newly formed studio Sledgehammer Games. Though Activision has said this title would take the Call of Duty series into the action-adventure genre,
third-person, a May job listing indicated it would also be a first-person shooter. Activision has not said when the Sledgehammer title will be released, but said it was not the unnamed COD project slated for next year–presumably Modern Warfare 3.
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