shio on 22 April 2010
Inifinity Ward is bleeding left and right, and could even die. 26 developers have now left IW, almost all of them of high profile:
Full List (26 Total) [35% of staff who worked on MW2 have left]
Top Men - [2 people]
- Jason West -- President, Game Director (fired)
- Vince Zampella -- CEO, Co-Founder (fired)
Programming and Software Engineering - [5 people]
- Francesco Gigliotti -- Lead Software Engineer
- Robert Field -- Lead Programmer
- Jon Shiring -- Lead Programmer
- Rayme Vinson -- Programmer
- Chris Lambert -- Programmer
Art + Animation - [7 people]
- Chris Cherubini -- Lead Artist
- Joel Emslie - Lead Artist
- Mark Grigsby -- Lead Animator
- Paul Messerly -- Lead Character Animator
- Bruce Ferriz -- Senior Animator (joined a start-up, Big Red Button Entertainment)
- Ryan Lastimosa - Artist
- Brad Allen - Artist
Game Design - [9 people]
- Todd Alderman -- Lead Designer
- Mackey McCandlish -- Lead Designer
- Steve Fukuda -- Lead Designer
- Zied Reike -- Lead Designer
- Brent McLeod -- Senior Designer
- Mohammad Alavi -- Senior Designer
- Chad Grenier -- Senior Designer
- Jason McCord -- Designer
- Charlie Wiederhold -- Designer
Level Design - [2 people]
- Keith Bell -- Level Designer
- Preston Glenn -- Level Designer
Other - [1 person]
- Kristen Cotterell -- Human Resources/Recruitment Specialist
EDIT: 2 more people have just left Infinity Ward:
- Kristen Cotterell -- Human Resources/Recruitment Specialist
- Robert Field -- Lead Programmer
That brings up the total to 26!!!
