interactive entertainment founded 2010 founder vince zampella headquarters sherman oaks california u.s. key people vince zampella ceo stig asmussen abbie heppe community manager number of employees 160 website www.respawn.com respawn entertainment is an american video game development studio founded by jason west and vince zampella who created and were responsible for the development of the call of duty franchise at infinity ward before 2010 . contents 1 history 2 games 3 references 4 external links history edit on march 1 2010 activision amended its report with the securities and exchange commission to add notification that two senior employees of infinity ward were being fired due to breaches of contract and insubordination . this coincided with jason west infinity ward president game director co cco and cto and vince zampella ceo and co founder of infinity ward editing their profiles on the website linkedin to list infinity ward as a former employer as of march 2010 . reportedly a meeting between zampella west and activision staff occurred on march 1 after which neither zampella nor west were seen ; this was followed by the arrival of security guards at the studio . 1 2 it was later confirmed by activision that west and zampella had been dismissed and had been replaced on an interim basis by activision cto steve pearce and head of production steve ackrich . 3 on april 12 2010 the los angeles times reported that west and zampella were forming a new independent gaming studio known as respawn entertainment . they were seeking funding from electronic arts through the ea partners program . west and zampella will retain the rights to all intellectual property produced by them in the future . 4 5 6 as of july 10 2010 38 of the 46 infinity ward employees who resigned from that studio following the firings of west and zampella revealed through their linkedin and facebook profiles that they had signed on with respawn entertainment . 7 8 games edit title release date s platform s publisher titanfall march 11 2014 xbox one pc april 8 2014 xbox 360 windows xbox 360 xbox one electronic arts titanfall 2 october 28 2016 windows xbox one playstation 4 electronic arts untitled star wars project 9 tba tba electronic arts ea games label president frank gibeau revealed at e3 2011 in june 2011 that respawn entertainment s ea published shooter was sci fi oriented and would allow the publisher to compete with things like gears and halo . 10 gibeau also stated that ea would release respawn s project when it sees an opportunistic window . 10 later that month respawn released a blurry teaser image of its unannounced game via the official website launched that day . 11 respawn further released another blurry image and teased the new game with mo cap shot . 12 13 in april 2013 respawn registered a trademark for the name titan 14 and it was reported that respawn s game was an always online xbox exclusive although nothing has been confirmed . 15 in june 2013 respawn entertainment debuted titanfall at e3 . on october 22 they revealed the release date of the game to be march 11 2014 in north america and march 13 in europe . in march 2015 it was announced that respawn is developing a sequel to titanfall . in june 2014 it was announced that stig asmussen who previously worked for sony santa monica on the god of war series had joined the studio as game director of a second project that had nothing to do with titanfall . 16 from job listings in january 2016 it was found that the project was to be a third person action adventure game . 17 on may 4 2016 star wars day asmussen announced respawn entertainment was making a third person star wars game . 9 references edit thorsen tor march 2 2010 . top infinity ward devs fired for insubordination lawsuits expected news at gamespot . gamespot . retrieved may 21 2010 . fahey mike march 3 2010 . report modern warfare dev head leaves company . kotaku . retrieved march 3 2010 . gonzalez annette march 2 2010 . activision s future plans for call of duty call for new developer news . gameinformer . retrieved may 21 2010 . pham alex ; ben fritz april 12 2010 . jason west and vincent zampella s new call of duty . los angeles times . retrieved may 21 2010 . grant christopher april 12 2010 . respawn entertainment announced by ex iw heads partnering with ea . joystiq . retrieved may 21 2010 . reilly jim april 12 2010 . infinity ward founders developing a big blockbuster . ign . retrieved may 21 2010 . who remains at infinity ward . cynicalsmirk.com . retrieved may 21 2010 . who remains at infinity ward . cynicalsmirk.com . may 25 2010 . retrieved may 25 2010 . a b yin poole wesley may 4 2016 . titanfall developer respawn is making a third person star wars game . eurogamer . retrieved may 4 2016 . a b andy robinson editor cvg follow espio1 june 8 2011 . news respawn title is a sci fi shooter will compete with halo gears ea . computerandvideogames.com . retrieved march 28 2014 . news ex call of duty boys tease new game with image . computerandvideogames.com . june 29 2011 . retrieved march 28 2014 . cullen johnny december 20 2011 . respawn releases another blurry image from first project . vg247 . retrieved march 28 2014 . cullen johnny january 5 2012 . respawn further teases new game with mo cap shot . vg247 . retrieved march 28 2014 . phillips tom . respawn registers trademark for titan . eurogamer . yin poole wesley . respawn game is reportedly an always online xbox exclusive . eurogamer . makuch eddie . e3 2014 veteran god of war dev joins titanfall studio . gamespot . nunneley stephany . titanfall studio hiring for new third person action adventure title . vg247 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title respawn entertainment & oldid 743513049 categories companies based in los angeleselectronic artsrespawn entertainmentvideo game companies established in 2010video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companieshidden categories use mdy dates from may 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran aisnederlands suomi edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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