Name of Responsibility developer Infinity Ward expands with new Austin studio

Infinity Ward, the event studio behind a number of Name of Responsibility video games, in the present day introduced that it’s opening a brand new studio in Austin, Texas.

The Austin location joins the unique Infinity Ward in California, in addition to its different workplaces in Poland and Mexico. The studio added in its announcement tweet that it’s hiring for all roles and linked to its profession web page, although there have been no jobs listed particularly for Austin, Texas on the time of this writing.

Infinity Ward is the unique studio behind Name of Responsibility, with fellow Activision studios Treyarch and Sledgehammer every additionally participating in a three-studio growth cycle. Infinity Ward’s most up-to-date Name of Responsibility was Modern Warfare, and a current leak suggests the studio’s subsequent recreation might be a sequel to that one. With Treyarch and Sledgehammer having made Black Ops Chilly Battle and Vanguard respectively, it’s Infinity Ward’s flip once more. A report from VGC alleged that the brand new recreation can have a marketing campaign concerning the Particular Forces preventing a Columbian drug cartel. The sport is supposedly codenamed Challenge Cortez.

This isn’t the one time this yr that Infinity Ward has expanded, as the corporate announced in June that its Polish studio was hiring for a number of new positions. Different Name of Responsibility-related studios likewise look like rising, as Raven Software program, one of many studios behind Warzone, reportedly added almost 100 people to its workers. Sledgehammer additionally went on a recruitment spree last year. Activision Blizzard introduced in Might that it deliberate so as to add as much as 2,000 new builders to its workers inside the subsequent few years. Nevertheless, the corporate’s current sexual harassment and inequality controversy has overshadowed its recruitment efforts.

Infinity Ward joins a big group of recreation builders with studios in Austin, together with BioWare, EA, Blizzard, Bethesda, Devolver Digital, Bluepoint, Aspyr, and Arkane.