Looks like IW not developing COD 8

[NavyChief]

It looks like IW will not be developing COD 8. A company called Sledgehammer Games (founded Nov 17, 2009) looks to get the chance.

Call of Duty 7
Call of Duty 7 (working title) was leaked as being in production when David Kim, a senior animator at Treyarch, stated on a website "I am currently on my second title as a senior animator in the games industry with Activision / Treyarch on Call of Duty 7." Activision confirmed in November 2009 that a new, yet-to-be-named Call of Duty game will be released sometime in 2010. The game is rumoured to be set during the Vietnam War.

Call of Duty (2011)
An unnamed Call of Duty game is under development by Activision studio Sledgehammer Games, and set for release in 2011. The game will reportedly "extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre". No other details were made available by Activision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_duty#Main_series

Here is more on the topic:

Activision's New Plans For Call of Duty Include New Developer, New Genres
http://kotaku.com/5484026/activisions-new-plans-for-call-of-duty-include-new-developer

[CoCoCountyKiller]

we will have to wait and see
how these turn out

co.co.

[Schlup]

I'm not sure what to think of this...only thing I can gather is that Activision is becoming too greedy and this is going to get expensive for the consumer.

[tehfunk101]

the downfall of call of duty has begun!

edit: come to think of it cod has been going downhill for a while, its just much more apparent now

[Schlup]

Yeah, it's too bad really, they could have made it legendary...oh well, there's always the next great game!

[CoCoCountyKiller]

On to the next addiction of gaming

co.co.

[chinokim]

i knew cod7 had to do something with the cold war cuz there is no other war left.

[NavyChief]

The Cold War period could be interesting. This period started in 1945 after the Yalta Conference and ended in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union.

There was Vietnam with all the thick jungles, a divided Germany with the infamous Berlin Wall, Cuba with the Bay of Pigs/missile crisis, and all the other locations around the world (Korea/USSR/China/Afghanistan) that could be used.

The weapons in this period cover a large spectrum with some pretty advanced stuff by the end of the period. There were nukes/AK-47s/M-16s, etc.

It could be an interesting game if they really think about it. Especially if they bring back the dedicated servers.

Time will tell.

[Schlup]

I've heard it will be based on Vietnam.

[Fortis]

Vietnam ftw!