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Call Of Duty studio Sledgehammer planning multiple new games


Sledgehammer aren’t going anywhere yet (Pic: Activision)

Sledgehammer is undergoing a hiring spree, opening up the possibility of their first non-Call Of Duty game.

Call Of Duty: Warzone has been an undeniable success for Activision, and it sounds as if that has had an effect on subsidiary Sledgehammer Games, which assisted with development on previous Call Of Duty titles.

In 2018, co-founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield left to form new studios and several dozen employees went with them, which led to reports last year that Sledgehammer had been removed as the lead for the new Call Of Duty game.

However, it sounds as if the studio is bouncing back. In an interview with VentureBeat, chief operating officer Andy Wilson, who joined Sledgehammer last year, confirmed that there are 200 employees across the Foster City, California and Melbourne, Australia studios.

He added that they are aiming to add about 100 more over the next year:

‘We’re now a multi-project studio and we’re looking for a substantial number of new team members to join us. We’re looking across every discipline and various levels of seniority. It’s a pretty exciting time for our studio.’

Wilson didn’t elaborate as to what any of these projects could be, but it does open up the possibility that Sledgehammer could end up making its first non-Call Of Duty game.

Sledgehammer were the lead developer on Advanced Warfare (Picture: Activision)

It was rumoured earlier in the year that Sledgehammer might be making a free-to-play game for 2021 and it could be helping out again with the development on the next mainline title, which is rumoured to be Call Of Duty: Vietnam.

It was to have been Sledgehammer’s ‘turn’ to make this year’s Call Of Duty, but while it’s strongly rumoured that Treyarch has taken the lead this time, that doesn’t mean Sledgehammer won’t be making other entries or spin-offs in the future.

If nothing else it sounds like the studio is handling itself pretty well in spite of the current coronavirus pandemic.

‘Even since California and Australia enforced full remote-working, we’ve had well over 2,000 applications for our open roles. The icing on the cake is that we’ve also seen numerous people return to the studio of their own volition and their feedback on the positivity taking place here has helped to validate a lot of the thinking.’

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