Call of Duty: Two executives behind the Modern Warfare campaign leave Infinity Ward

News business Call of Duty: Two executives behind the Modern Warfare campaign leave Infinity Ward

Taylor Kurosaki and Jacob Minkoff, Director of Storytelling and Director of Campaign Writing, respectively, for the latest Call of DutyInfinity Ward

Both were previously senior executives at Naughty dog : Taylor Kurosaki directed Uncharted 3: The Illusion of Drake and Jacob Minkoff was the lead designer on The Last of Us. After the almost unanimous disappointment that Call of Duty: Ghosts was in 2013, Infinity Ward went looking for them to change the formula, particularly with regards to the solo portion of Call of Duty. Result: Infinite Warfare, beginning of the revival of Infinity Ward CoD, and in particular the celebrated Modern Warfare with its campaign, which was characterized by its cold realism in certain sequences and which had given the Opus a special seal of approval.

activation and Infinity Ward are therefore likely already at work to continue that success after Taylor Kurosaki and Jacob Minkoff disappear. They announced it on Twitter today (Minkoff hadn’t tweeted since 2014), leaving Infinity Ward to “take advantage of a rare and exciting new opportunity.” The future will tell if Infinity Ward managed to replace her and what this famous and fascinating opportunity is …

Earlier this year we decided to leave Infinity Ward for a rare and exciting new opportunity. It’s been an honor to have been part of this studio for seven years and we are very proud of what we have created together with Modern Warfare and Infinite Warfare. We wish the team all the best. (…) So what’s next for us? We can’t say too much just yet, but look forward to sharing more with you soon.

Remember that the next episode of Call of Duty this time around will be developed by Sledgehammer gamesand should be published in the fall.

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