{"id":77854,"date":"2026-05-12T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77854"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:40:12","slug":"cod-veterans-new-shooter-is-not-a-call-of-duty-killer-inspired-by-david-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77854","title":{"rendered":"CoD Veteran’s New Shooter Is “Not A Call Of Duty Killer,” Inspired By David Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best-known Call of Duty developers, David Vonderhaar, is making a new game that is “not a Call of Duty killer” but is instead something that sounds quite different.<\/p>\n

It will be a shooter, but Vonderhaar told Bloomberg<\/a> it’s “definitely not” another military simulation-type game. Instead, people can think of it as “if David Lynch made shooters.”<\/p>\n

Players will work together to fight environmental challenges and also each other, the report said, suggesting it will be some type of PvPvE game.<\/p>\n

Invoking Lynch’s name is sure to bring attention to Vonderhaar’s project, as the iconic filmmaker made some of the most surreal movies and TV shows, chief among them being Twin Peaks. He died in 2025, but his legacy lives on, obviously, and his distinct style led to people describing works like his as “Lynchian.”<\/p>\n

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Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy, for example, cited Lynch as an inspiration for many of the studio’s projects<\/a>. In fact, the internal code name for Alan Wake 2 was “Big Fish,” which was a reference to Lynch’s autobiography, Catching the Big Fish.<\/p>\n

Vonderhaar is no stranger to surrealism, as his former Call of Duty studio, Treyarch, was known for instilling mind-bending and trippy narrative features in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the best-known Call of Duty developers, David Vonderhaar, is making a new game that is “not a Call of Duty killer” but is instead something that sounds quite different. It will be a shooter, but Vonderhaar told Bloomberg it’s “definitely not” another military simulation-type game. Instead, people can think of it as “if…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77857,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77854\/revisions\/77857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}