http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704164/UPDATE-Five-And-Counting-Ex-Infinity-Ward-Employees-Join-Respawn.html

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!!!

God damn... 19 people in total?!

Infinity Ward is leaking more than Sony before E3!!!

Even though % wise it may not seem high (although really it is), most of the people have the "lead" position, and thus important.

That's almost 20% of the staff, how is that not high % wise???

guess there are gonna be some promotions in Infinity Ward! I'd apply for a job but ya know... I hate bobby.

I wonder if Robert Bowling will leave as well

Because they can still make a game with the amount of staff they have left. And I did infact say that it was high.

True, but you can make a game with just 20 people (LittleBigPlanet) or even less. 20% reduction in manpower to any company (of reasonable size) is a staggering percentage though and will cause serious repercussion never mind the fact that all the senior management just went 'laterz lol'.

It is actually 13 the number of devs that left IW so far, not 19. It was my mistake, there were repeated names. If it makes you feel better, all the guys that left were IW's leaders (except 2).

No company can afford to lose so many leads in a short while.

Activision is going to ship in a lot of key people.