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Infinity Ward crafting next-gen Call of Duty?

  • By Eddie Makuch, GameSpot
  • Posted Jan 18, 2012 7:40 am PT

Original Call of Duty studio looking for senior animator with "an interest in working with next-generation technologies."

In October, a job listing at Call of Duty studio Treyarch indicated that the developer was readying a next-generation entry in the shooter franchise. Now, it appears Infinity Ward is also preparing a next-generation Call of Duty game.

It appears Infinity Ward is taking Call of Duty to the next generation.

It appears Infinity Ward is taking Call of Duty to the next generation.

A requisition for a senior animator at Infinity Ward calls for a person with "an interest in working with next-generation technologies."

Unfortunately, the job listing does not offer any additional information about what Infinity Ward may be at work on. As for what next-generation technologies could pertain to, there are numerous possibilities. At the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Activision pledged its support for Nintendo's Wii U, and rumors are swirling that Microsoft and Sony are readying new consoles.

If Infinity Ward is indeed at work on a next-generation Call of Duty title, it won't be the only project the studio is crafting. Last week, Activision announced the Modern Warfare 3 content season, and it named Infinity Ward, Raven Software, and Sledgehammer Games as developers for the barrage of game updates planned over the next nine months.

A new Call of Duty game has been confirmed for release in 2012, but Activision has yet to name this title or mention what developer(s) are working on it. That game has no release date yet, but Call of Duty has had new installments debut between late October and mid-November every year since the franchise was launched in 2003.

As of press time, Activision had not responded to GameSpot's request for comment.

273 Comments

  • ryukoken6791

    Posted Jan 31, 2012 7:03 am GMT

    You know One reason I bought my 360 was cuz of CoD 2. an amazing game!
    Then CODMW came out... not bad... was good, then CODMW2... was just ok... but they left the story mode unfinished.. MW3 at least finished the story.. For me, I stopped playing all the online crap. and I have a major problem with gaming now days that they focus to much on online gaimg while letting single player campaigns crumble to dust...
    If I wanted to play with other people or talk to them I would be hanging out with them... What I wish is that they would spend more time on making a great single player game.. and then spend time adding a good MP aspect to it. Lets take COD, COD2, the single player was amazing... MW1 was amazing, MW2 was good, but MP got more of the work, MW3.. story was mediocre, and I didnt bother with MP because honestly I dont care for MP much anymore.
    Lets take Bioware... ME1, stunning game, Dragons Age 1 great game, EA bought them and ME2, less rpg more third person shooter, Dragons age 2... horrible game, Now ME 3 is coming out, real melee is now added, multiplayer is also added... Since when do rpgs require MP? I'll tell you, since EA frelled it up and made it a shooter instead of an rpg...
    Multiplayer is ruining gaming...

  • chinchillables2

    Posted Jan 29, 2012 9:56 pm GMT

    MORE COD? Come on really... let it go people. Let... It... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo...

  • jaymib

    Posted Jan 29, 2012 4:03 pm GMT

    What happens when you milk something too much? It dies! Just like Guitar hero did. COD have gotten rubbish, i played MW3 and i just didn't like it!!! It has nothing new and all the bugs in the last game are still there..e.g spawn killing. Think its time for C.O.D to take a year or two off at least till the new playstation and xbox is out.

  • AvatarMan96

    Posted Jan 29, 2012 12:25 pm GMT

    I have vowed to never buy another CoD game again. My friend got me with MW3, but I seriously regret buying that unbalanced, stupid, piece of crap FPS.

  • F4Remix

    Posted Jan 29, 2012 4:04 am GMT

    Spend A Good Few Years On It And Ill Consider Buying It I Stopped At Black Ops Was A Hardcore C.O.D Fan But Ive Changed To Battlefield Way More Graphical,Realistic,Bigger Maps,Vehicles And A Way Better Engine I Will Probably Get loads C.O.D Fans Abuse But I Dont Care I Know Battlefield Better C.O.D Players Dont Want To Change Because They Know You Have To Be 100x More Skillfull,Keep Wasting Your Dosh On C.O.D.

  • xThexScarecrowx

    Posted Jan 29, 2012 12:55 am GMT

    Respawn Entertainment = Death of COD

  • ekalbtwin

    Posted Jan 28, 2012 5:30 pm GMT

    @cubachino

    lol you forgot to include the release dates for each of those CoD games and how they will all be on store shelves before the end of 2014!

  • Soothsayer42

    Posted Jan 28, 2012 11:13 am GMT

    @sexyweapons invalid. Since when any FPS series changes any formula? Look at BF3. the engine changes. The formula does not.

  • Soothsayer42

    Posted Jan 28, 2012 11:12 am GMT

    There is still hope. Infinity Ward/Treyarch has the talent. Its activison that makes the whole series to be milked. The devs have no rights to release the game rigth? So lets just say if Activision gonna spend millions to develop a new engine for IW/Tre , then thats a good news for everyone. COD is not a bad game, but milking them makes them the most hated game series right now

  • cubachino

    Posted Jan 28, 2012 3:15 am GMT

    All right another COD game! I can't wait to spend another $60 dollars for that new gun that could have already been in the previous game, and the minimally improved graphics and game play and lets not forget those long 5 hours single player campaigns. Yippee! People like to say that Nintendo rehashes their franchises but when you do the math it's obvious that COD is well on it's way to being one of the most rehashed games of all time

    My prediction for COD 2012 and beyond - COD Green Beret then COD Modern Warfare 4 then COD Armed Forces then COD Modern Warfare 5 then COD Navy Seals then COD Modern Warfare 6 then COD Ghost Recon then Cod Modern Warfare 7 then COD Secret Agent then COD Modern Warfare 8 then COD Blue Ball Ops then COD Modern Warfare 9 then COD (Insert anything relating to military here) then Modern Warfare 10 then well you get the picture.

  • ed6565

    Posted Jan 27, 2012 2:22 pm GMT

    after cod4, it got kinda bleh, i'd rather have a new franchise completely (not saying activision should make it either) that incorporates the best FROM the best (advanced leveling, active reloads, longer campaigns, and a balanced system YOU DON'T PAY FOR!!!!!!!!)

  • sc_skullz

    Posted Jan 27, 2012 4:14 am GMT

    in my opinion, the best cod war cod 4, the first modern warfare.

  • iRaNiAn-pRiDe

    Posted Jan 27, 2012 12:04 am GMT

    mash potato's are old now!!!

  • AdderD

    Posted Jan 26, 2012 10:45 pm GMT

    @junglist101

    No offense, but you sound quite like a Roblox player.

  • kais112

    Posted Jan 26, 2012 12:15 pm GMT

    @ChaosUndivided And teachers still know nothing about computers and ask the students...

  • nparks

    Posted Jan 26, 2012 6:57 am GMT

    What? Developers are working on next gen games? So now we know that there will be games for next gen consoles and they won't just be used to play Youtube vids? Whew, what a relief. For a second there, I was really worried. Thanks for the breaking news.

  • gamefreak215jd

    Posted Jan 26, 2012 2:08 am GMT

    just as i thought, first the past, then the present, then the future . i would only play this game for campaign, which is the best part of cod games.but this time lets hope they make things a lot better

  • Rogun360

    Posted Jan 26, 2012 12:16 am GMT

    cool

  • vforvitiello

    Posted Jan 25, 2012 4:25 pm GMT

    who cares? cod4 was the best.... then years past and nothing new came out. until battlefield 3. these two have changed the landscape.

  • vforvitiello

    Posted Jan 25, 2012 4:21 pm GMT

    unless they dont add skydiving, helicopters, tanks, boats, jets, and jeeps. along with maps the size of liberty city and destructible cover..... im not interested.

  • barry1029

    Posted Jan 25, 2012 12:31 pm GMT

    OMG they teamed up with M. Night Shyamalan, they are throwing in an obvious twist with every new game.


    Wait....wait false alarm, theres nothing new in here, and no twist all the same boring crap

  • nima_metal90

    Posted Jan 25, 2012 11:02 am GMT

    I don't need another COD soooo.......... KILL THAT MAN!!!!!!!

  • skattestop

    Posted Jan 25, 2012 4:24 am GMT

    Activision just needs help to port their current engine to the new consoles, that's probably it.....

  • junglist101

    Posted Jan 25, 2012 3:51 am GMT

    Anyone who still buys call of duty is probably a noob that just started the series when mw2 came out. Stop buying this game so they have to make it better, noobs.

  • dxBIGBOSSxb

    Posted Jan 24, 2012 8:53 pm GMT

    @ChaosUndivided
    God I loved playing Unreal T2 in my computer classes when the teachers left, or during lunch. My friends and I would always sneak into the computer labs and download copies of Half-Life, Counterstrike, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and occasional we'd run Garry's mod, from our flash drives and have a blast.

    I still think LAN parties are way more fun than multiplayer sessions. It's just your friends, you, and an hour to kill.

  • Darkmoone1

    Posted Jan 24, 2012 5:48 pm GMT

    All right, let me put it to GS softly.

    It would be news if IW ISN'T making another CoD game. Then again.......it really isn't the IW we all knew and loved.....back when CoD wasn't the "big" thing. When Highschoolers from across america were talking about other good games other than CoD.

    Oh hhow the times have changed.

  • kennythomas26

    Posted Jan 24, 2012 10:26 am GMT

    ah who cares.

  • steve4123456789

    Posted Jan 24, 2012 10:13 am GMT

    c o c k of duty modern gy fk stupid 5.

  • ChaosUndivided

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 10:40 pm GMT

    I don't care what people say the First Call of duty was amazing compared to other FPS available at the time. Yes it is stale now but it was once revolutionary.

  • ChaosUndivided

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 10:34 pm GMT

    @dxBIGBOSSxb
    Half-Life, Quake2 and Unreal/Tournament all great but Half-life being the better game. These were the games we played in High School secrectly installing them in all the rooms so we can play Deathmatch while in different classes. This was before the days of mobile phones when teachers new nothing about computers and usually asked the students.

  • slyguy65

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 6:59 pm GMT

    Next gen CoD...that is impossible CoD is the most stagnant franchises i have ever seen in my life Call of duty 1-3 WW2 (same thing) call of duty 4-8 were also the same thing...with minute changes...thumbing this down is a sign of denial CoD fans don't be pissed at the truth and realized you spent money on the same thing each year only because you knew everyone else would so you had to keep up....

    P.S halo is the same way....ya (in fact most FPS franchises that release multiple sequels are the same, especially if they go past the 3rd or 4th sequel). It is funny to watch people waste their money though so i won't involve my self in trying to change things.

  • Blitzkrieg129

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 12:14 pm GMT

    Call of Duty: SSDD

  • prince__vlad

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 9:54 am GMT

    They make money because of one reasn only. Teens have small brains and they come in millions. If they wouldn't have right to buy at all, such crap couldn't be pulled off with decent people.

  • Gravity_Slave

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 9:10 am GMT

    Funny and sad how people hate success soo much they ridecule it. Has Call of Duty reached its peak? Yeah probably, but its not the most widely played 1st person shooter in the world because it sucks. Get over yourselves, you pompous dinks. The only crime here is that IW doesn't address and fix it's current issues, it only produces more with every release.

  • cheatmaster3005

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 8:48 am GMT

    this is going to be another billion dollar mony maker for the 4th time.

  • elitedeadman

    Posted Jan 23, 2012 12:38 am GMT

    Call of Duty: Future "Money maker"........oh i mean "warfare"

  • monowasp

    Posted Jan 22, 2012 5:03 pm GMT

    The won't be using the same engine this time around.

  • VilandasUK

    Posted Jan 22, 2012 2:22 am GMT

    This is a great chance to get some new ideas and start creating something new and different than COD.

  • CamoBullo

    Posted Jan 22, 2012 1:16 am GMT

    "Next-Gen" Call of Duty? They sure seem confident in themselves.

  • godzillavskong

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 9:08 pm GMT

    This would be no surprise for any of the yet to be released consoles. As we are aware it takes 5-6 years worth of blood sweat and tears for some of these games to finalize in development, giving developers plenty of time with the hardware. What is a little shocking is that they're just now recruiting for it! Wouldn't that mean the game is at least 3 years away? Unless they just port over the old COD engine and throw on a new coat of paint. Hopefully they don't, but hey, Activision has been known to milk a franchise.

  • TheoAlmighty

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 2:16 pm GMT

    if you polish a turd, it's still a turd

  • dawnofhero

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:55 pm GMT

    This is almost as bad as Apple releasing the iPad every year...

  • dxBIGBOSSxb

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:25 pm GMT

    @y3ivan
    That's what the next Battlefield expansion should be! A Red Faction expansion pack with the same fully destructible game engine that Red Faction ran off 10 YEARS AGO!

    Now that I say that, it's been 10 years, and nothing has managed to come close to Red Faction's destruction engine aside from Red Faction Guerrilla and Battlefield?

  • dxBIGBOSSxb

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:22 pm GMT

    @indicaX
    I'm pretty sure it's my right to state my opinion, and I'm pretty sure some loud-mouth smart-a** can't really do anything about it. What are you going to do, spam me with troll messages? Is it cool, to ask "Is it cool to hate CoD, BF fanboy? trololol". How many people who actually comment here have mentioned BF? Not many, and yet you're rambling about BF fanboys?

    The only fanboy I see here is some internet tough guy who thinks HE'S cool because he's calling out on a fanbase who could care LESS about what he has to say.

  • dxBIGBOSSxb

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:12 pm GMT

    @Darnasian
    You know, you guys say "If you don't like it don't buy it", but do you really think that will stop the haters (Most of which HAVE played CoD in some way, either at a friends or given as a gift or a rental.), but does that stop us from complaining about Bieber without even listening to his music, or Twilight without reading the book or seeing the movie? No? Than how do you respond to that? How can you justify someone's distaste for the series as being a "Hater" if they genuinely hate the game?

    It's not a case of "BF fan versus MW fan" (I could care less about that stupid feud), nor is it "Popular to hate CoD", it's because people are so gullible, and over saturated today in shooters that they simply don't care. CoD is doing that NOW (Pimping the market), but the only problem is, there is just as good or better stuff out there. ARMA, Resistence, Red Orchestra, Battlefield (Especially on the P.C), Farcry, Crysis, Metro, Wolf Team, Rainbow Six, TF2, Counter Strike, Half-Life, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Ghost Recon, Borderlands, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Bioshock, FEAR, Halo, Killzone, Call of Juarez, and many MANY more.

    I have played ALL of these games, and after having experienced something NOT CoD (Which most CoD fans don't), I've come to the conclusion that CoD is SEVERELY overrated.

  • dxBIGBOSSxb

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 12:44 pm GMT

    @Jim_the_Drunk
    I do.
    It's how I get my kicks. I love how people say CoD haters are in the minority compared to people who like it, but if you compare the 10 or so million fans and lovers, to the 100 million gamers, than yeah, only 1 out of 10 gamers GLOBALLY like CoD. I'm not even flubbing this, these are facts. 100 million+ gamers globally and Activison boasts about having about 10-12 million fans (Most of which are children and casual gamer who don't even know what they're getting into or sell their copy back to gamespot), heck my gamespot has almost 70%(!) of their stock returned, and it's not getting lower lol.

    You can get mad at me, but I'm not the biggest CoD hater you can find. I like all the CoDs except MW2 (Which is terrible), and partially MW3. I say partially because the Campaign and survival mode are fine, in fact they're great, but the multiplayer is still the same, and still bulls***, and I got bored and traded it in for a copy of the MGS HD Collection.

  • scottishboy

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 5:33 am GMT

    If they really are desperate to work with next gen technologies they should have took the time to make the PC version take advantage of the high end systems. Or at least make it bearable.

  • HAMODA

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 12:05 am GMT

    Call Of Duty : Future Warfare .

  • bigcrusha

    Posted Jan 20, 2012 4:41 pm GMT

    @Darnasian

    Basically from what i understand about your ideology, we gamers are all 10 year old kids who follow trends. According to you Darnasian, if I like ice cream and the world began to hate ice cream, I'm going to stop eating it cuz that's how my brain functions right? Do you honestly think Cod players give a rats tail what the haters say?

    Ok lets say it does happen, are you saying it's our business when a die hard Cod fan goes hater to follow the flock? SELFISH? HE MADE THAT CHOICE, FANBOYS MADE THE CHOICE TO READ HATE, what they do in result is THEIR BUSINESS, not the hater, THEM, we are human, we think and act for ourselves. Common knowledge yet you rant like you don't understand what free speech is.

  • Darnasian

    Posted Jan 20, 2012 11:42 am GMT

    @bigcrusha

    So why are u telling me this...something I already know...actually almost everybody knows this...is common knowledge...
    And for the part where you say that people are allowed to hate...I have nothing against hating...it's just a selfish thing to influence the mind of someone else when it's obvious people have different tastes...we AREN'T ALL THE SAME u know?...
    Don't like it, don't buy it...what's more to it than this...really...leave the COD fanboys where they are...
    I see your point...but since 2005 at least imo gaming started to be for the most part a cash in thing for developers...there are too few examples of serious developers...
    And fewer and fewer serious gamers
    And here comes your point
    "Innovation seems to be coming from smartphones and tablet gaming, SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT"
    Yeah it's not right but as u can see people start to forget what's gaming and transform into casual gamers...the "meh" style of gamer which is pretty annoying
    Also innovation seems to came from budget...or indie like games this days which is not a bad thing entirely...but proper games seem to lose territory here and that's the bad thing...
    About your comment...don't try to convince me that hating on games it's a a free right yeah it is but I think it's more appropriate to hate on the developers or the publishers of the game then on the game itself...
    My point is...you can share your opinions and have whatever opinions you want but sometimes the "Free speech" right can be a ^%$&

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