{"id":79283,"date":"2026-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79283"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:36:28","slug":"new-call-of-duty-studio-heads-on-redefining-infinity-wards-dna-in-2026-mourning-vince-zampella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=79283","title":{"rendered":"New Call of Duty Studio Heads on Redefining Infinity Ward\u2019s DNA in 2026, Mourning Vince Zampella"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Original Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward has new studio heads, but neither of them is new to the studio. Jack O\u2019Hara, who came up in production, has been at Infinity Ward since 2012. Mark Grigsby, meanwhile, made his name in animation starting back in 2005, though he left for a stint at Respawn Entertainment (which, of course, was infamously started when a substantial number of team members followed IW cofounders Jason West and the late Vince Zampella out the door in 2010 following a royalties dispute) before returning in 2012. Both are insistent that the studio will remain true to the bold design that makes up its DNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually have one person that does work here that was here from the beginning,\u201d Grigsby said. \u201cThe DNA of that crew still lives in this studio.\u201d He continued: \u201cWhat we created back then, how the vibe was in the studio back then \u2013 it&#8217;s still something that we push for [with] our employees here, and what we want the studio to generate. It was a vibe. It still is a vibe, right?<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"terry-crews-son-acted-totally-different-after-finding-out-his-dad-would-be-in-call-of-duty\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, COVID kind of hurt us a little bit back in the day a couple of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward has new studio heads, but neither of them is new to the studio. Jack O\u2019Hara, who came up in production, has been at Infinity Ward since 2012. Mark Grigsby, meanwhile, made his name in animation starting back in 2005, though he left for a stint at Respawn Entertainment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":79285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79287,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283\/revisions\/79287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}