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Default 2011 Call of Duty NOT to be developed by Infinity Ward
Jumping really far ahead of ourselves here, talking about the 8th Call of Duty game before we have even the faintest idea about Call of Duty 7, but Activision yesterday confirmed rumours that Infinity Ward will not be developing the 2011 Call of Duty title, and have for now only confirmed that the studio is focusing on the two confirmed DLC packs for Modern Warfare 2.

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Activision's Call of Duty plans largely exclude the studio which created the signature first-person shooter series. In an announcement this afternoon, the company said it is forming a massive new business unit dedicated entirely to expanding the first-person shooter franchise.

In a statement, Activision Blizzard said that the new business unit will "expand the Call of Duty brand with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit. This will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models."

As suspected, the next Call of Duty will be developed by Treyarch, and will arrive sometime later this year. According to rumors last year, it will be set either during the Cold War or Vietnam War. Activision did not offer any new details about the game's plot, setting, or launch.

However, Activision did confirm a long-standing rumor that a second Call of Duty game is in the works at a non-Infinity Ward studio. That shop is indeed Sledgehammer Games, the San Francisco Bay Area studio Activision formed last year by hiring two key Dead Space developers away from Electronic Arts. Due in 2011, the unnamed title "will extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre," according to the statement, lending weight to rumors the project is a third-person spin-off of the series.

Were that not enough news, Activision also confirmed that it is moving forward on CEO Bobby Kotick's stated desire to expand the Call of Duty brand into massively multiplayer gaming. The company said that it is "is in discussions with a select number of partners to bring the franchise to Asia, one of the fastest growing regions for online multiplayer games in the world." The majority of those games are based on the microtransaction-based business model. A Call of Duty version of such a game might resemble Electronic Arts' free-to-play war shooter Battlefield: Heroes, launched last year.
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crazy stuff happening there... money ruins things, simple as that. im just ready for CoD 7
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Don't care. That's actually good news. They made a big mistake with the PC version and they don't even admit it. Pahh!!! gogo Treyarch!
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