Infinity Ward To Be "Essentially Closed" After Next Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Is Released

Here's some incentive for those of you still working hard at Infinity Ward crafting Modern Warfare 2's next over-priced DLC pack: Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey reckons the studio will be closed when the content's finished up

by Sammy Barker Wed 28th Apr 2010

What with all the legal drama and defections going down at the once market leading studio, Hickey reckons the studio will eventually be absorbed into Activision and that future work in the Call Of Duty franchise will be spread out amongst the rest of the company's developers.

Continued defections from [Activision's] Infinity Ward studio have created meaningful uncertainty around the future of their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise, said Hickey.

We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially closed after their next map pack release, with development work on Modern Warfare 3 spread between two studios not historically tied to the franchise.

We said we thought Infinity Ward were dead a few weeks back. This foresight would in no way surprise us.

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