Activision is also being sued by the “Infinity Ward Employee Group” for unpaid royalties and bonuses for their work on Modern Warfare 2. The group was asking for between $75 and $125 million in unpaid wages, in addition to up to $500 million in punitive damages.

Today, there are reports that Activision agreed to pay $42 million to the group’s lawyers after its discovery phase determined that the Infinity Ward Employee Group members were not implicated in its own lawsuit against West and Zampella over breach-of-contract.

“I can confirm for you that it happened today,” Bruce Isaacs, attorney for the Infinity Ward Employee Group, told Polygon. “I can also tell you that although it is a meaningful payment it is only a small portion of what we are seeking in litigation. It is outrageous that they made us wait, they obviously knew they owed the money and this just shows that they breached the contract.”

The Infinity Ward Employee Group and its lawyers still plan to pursue the full amount they are asking for from Activision.

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The Call of Duty World Reveal is coming. You will see it when you tune into the NBA Playoffs on TNT Tuesday May 1st at 8PM CST/9PM EST. We will have the world reveal up for it right away after.

Source: Call of Duty on Twitter

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These 2 new maps are called Sanctuary and Foundation and from at least these 2 screenshots, look pretty decent enough from a few of their past map releases.

Though I do wonder if and when we will see any classic maps from past Call of Duty titles, especially any Call of Duty 4 maps especially Strike which is still one of my favorite maps.

If they ever released classic maps from previous Call of Duty games, which specific maps/favorites would you want them to release? And would you want them to be free? Because Robert Bowling could have possibly been fired/quit over Activision wanting to charge for them.

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“Today, I resign from my position as Creative Strategist of Call of Duty, as a lead of Infinity Ward, and as an employee of Activision,” Bowling wrote in a tweet earlier today.

Since Call of Duty 4, Bowling has more or less been the face of Infinity Ward’s titles, especially after the departure of founders Jason West and Vince Zampella, so his sudden departure comes as a bit of a surprise. Bowling did not offer a reason for his departure, either, so all we can do is guess at why he is moving on.

Shortly after Bowling made the announcement, Activision sent out an official statement on the departure to press outlets, but the statement does not shed on any light as to why Bowling is leaving.

Here is what Activision had to say: “We sincerely thank Robert for his many years of service. He’s been a trusted and valued member of the Infinity Ward team. We wish him all the best on his decision to pursue future opportunities.”

We here at team bRos think that there are a numerous amount of reasons why he would have left, especially because he tweeted the following in reply to someone:

“@deantak It’s the year of change Dean. Big budgets are no longer necessary for amazing gameplay experiences. Time to reconnect to our roots.”

This makes us think that he could have left for any of the following reasons:

• What the Call of Duty franchise has become, and not so much what it use to be. Especially when it comes to creating the “same” game every year (2 different developers) and milking money from all the paying customers when it comes to map packs and much more.
• Creative differences.
• The numerous issues with the game; bugs, glitches, weapon issues, network code and much more. though I doubt he cared much about these.
• The numerous issues with the Elite service and more especially the website and features such as clan operations taking months (too long) to launch.

Whatever the reasons may be, we at least thank him for his hard work at the times which he did so while at Infinity Ward and for the Call of Duty franchise fans. We wish him the best for his future.

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