Its been almost a year since Activision out of the blue fired the two co-founders of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vincent Zampella. Most were shocked at the firing since Infinity Ward was behind Activision’s massivily successful franchise Call of Duty. More importantly at the time of the reasoning behind the firings were quite unclear, prompting a quick formation of a lawsuit from the two former employees; stating unpaid royalties and the unjust firings as their motives. Activision would later announce that the reason behind their actions was due to West and Zampella attempting to undermine Infinity Ward and steal it’s employees in order to form a new development company. Shortly after this was released Activision used their statement as leverage in a counter-suit versus the pair.

Roughly a month after the initial firings occurred West and Zampella formed Respawn Entertainment, an independent development studio. Nearly fifty of the employees who later left Infinity Ward and were also claiming to have been denied royalties, signed with Respawn who now almost exclusively works with EA Entertainment. These employees are also engaged in a legal battle with Activison over the companies withholding of royalties a lawsuit currently sitting at $125 million. Activison has also added EA to its counter-suit claiming that they were conspiring with West and Zampella.

The current date for the case to go before a judge is set for May 7th of the new year. In a statement released yesterday to USA Today West and Zampella’s attorney announced that they felt confident of their chances, also stating that Activison’s counter-suit versus EA is nothing more than a smoke screen to cover up their own wrongful actions against his clients.

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