When it was revealed that long time Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero developer Neversoft would be working on a first person shooter with some form of multiplayer mode, the first assumption was that game would be direct competition for Activision’s Call of Duty franchise. As it turns out, though, that first person shooter might not be direct competition for Call of Duty; it may actually be another entry in the Call of Duty franchise.
Over on Neversoft‘s official page the company has posted some career information that suggests they are hiring for a new Call of Duty related project. The page itself doesn’t outright say that Neversoft is working on some form of Call of Duty project, but the series’ logo at the bottom of the page suggests they are.
And now the front page of Neversoft’s home page, the one that leads to the aforementioned career page, says outright that the developers they are looking for will be working on pushing “the First Person Action genre in support of Activision’s Call of Duty franchise.” That’s about as close to a smoking gun as we’re going to get on a rumor like this.
While Neversoft might be working on a Call of Duty title, or at least staffing up for work on one, there’s no way of knowing the nature of this project at this point. Perhaps like Sledgehammer and Raven Software before them, Neversoft has been tasked with assisting one of the major Call of Duty developers, either Infinity Ward or Treyarch, with getting their next project rolling.
As we enter the next console generation the expectation is that Call of Duty will take a similarly big leap. Whether that means completely redesigning their engine or delivering a whole new perspective on the first person shooter genre is unclear, all we know is something needs to improve for fans to stay interested. Unfortunately the unstable nature of Infinity Ward’s staffing leaves a lot of questions, ones that hopefully can be answered with the addition of Neversoft.
Do you think that Neversoft is working on their own brand of Call of Duty game, or helping out one of the major developers? Should Activision hand the reins of the franchise over to a new developer to inject a new perspective?
Xbox One: Watch The Next-Gen Xbox Presentation Here! 
Electronic Arts Engineer Blasts the Wii U 
Kevin Conroy WILL Return For ‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ 
What You May Not Know About The ‘Xbox One’ [Updated] 
Loading ...
Call of Duty is a terrible game.
They’re probably helping Infinity Ward. Could you imagine the morale after the West & Z… forgot how to spell his name lol.. case? Or the unpaid bonuses?
Zampela? Zimpela? Whatever!
Activision needs to slow it down, they’re going to run out of gas and its a hard fall when you’re on top.
Activion is used to running out of gas just look at guitar hero or tony hawk all thy have to do when cod sales go low is just release an arcade mp version of cod 4 hd that will get a lot of old fans who complained about mw2 and blops cartoonish graphics. And after that they will just make a totally new IP with there billions they have made.
Activision….
God damn I remember when activision was a small small company. Remember Activision o2?
But yeah, they will go back to the crevice they emerged from in no time. Robert Kotick will hopefully die sometime soon because that guy is f***ing insane. And I’m being nice. I weep for th gamers who still think Call of Duty is good and for Bungie for singing up with an even worst beast because they literally push the whole “one-game per year”
We still have next to no details on the call of duty game fo the ps-vita. Maybe neversoft are joing in to get that project over the line……..
Good point, you might have something there. I’d be surprised if they threw ANOTHER studio in to the clusterf*** that they have already handling the annual releases
Lol. COD duty becomes a semi-annual release.
speeds up its decline!
I pray to god that this isn’t true. The answer is not “Hey lets see if this developer can help slow our downfall.” This series is dying (thank the lord) as it NEEDS to die. This series is done. There is no way, not no how that they will add anything new to this game. Activision will not let the formula be tampered with anymore. They will not let anything slide to make it remotely better or newer. I mean Robert Bowling left because of the lack of flexibility.
On a side note, Neversoft could be contributing because they are begging to be greedy bastards. We won’t know until it happens.