Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Sledgehammer's Call Of Duty Set In Space?
Citing anonymous "industry sources," Gamasutra is reporting that the Call of Duty game in the works at former Dead Space lead Glen Schofield's studio, Sledgehammer Games, will be set in the future. And so the immutable law of video games holds true: Every franchise, should it persist long enough, will gravitate toward space marines.
Beyond the nebulous unnamed sources, the Gamasutra speculation references...nothing. If "wanting to believe" is a way to make news come true, though, rumors of the Dead Space guy making a space-based Call of Duty game should have resulted in us playing it two years ago.
Gamasutra also takes on the long-standing rumor of an MMO entry in the CoD franchise, using remarks from Activision COO Thomas Tippl as supporting arguments in the matter: "We think there's a tremendous amount of appetite for Call of Duty content as well as services," he said in the company's third quarter earnings call last week [emphasis mine]. While Occam's Razor suggests premium items like private servers or increased capabilities within Black Ops' powerful Theater mode as more likely services, an MMO would certainly fit the bill.
Tippl also said, "We have more development resources dedicated to Call of Duty than we've ever had before." While this probably just means larger teams at Treyarch, Sledgehammer, and Infinity Ward (which does still exist, Activision assures us), it's not impossible that the publisher could be hiding the 200+ development team that would be needed for a triple-A MMO somewhere in the California desert.
What are you crossing your fingers for in the next Call of Duty? Or are you still planning on playing Black Ops well into 2012?
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
