You'd think, after producing a game which had the most lucrative launch in entertainment history, the staff of developer Infinity Ward would have earned a hearty slap on the back and a nice vacation. the future is always color
But for an alarming number of key staff at the studio, those vacations turned out to be permanent. Following the sensationalThe choice of a new generation March firing of the studio's founders, news emerged this week that two more high ranking Infinity Ward staff -- Todd Alderman and Francesco Gigliotti -- have left the company.Alderman was instrumental in the development of the game's class-leading Time is what you make of itmultiplayer and carries a co-writing credit for the game's single-player campaign. Gigliotti was the studio's lead software engineer. Both men were hired by Infinity never having to say you're sorryWard in 2002, the year before the studio rose to fame with the release of the first Call of Duty game. Alderman and Gigliotti's departures follow March's firing of There's no place like homeModern Warfare co-creators Jason West and Vince Zampella, who fired back with a $36m lawsuit accusing the studio's owners Activision of "astonishing arrogance
The great thing about video games is that they're stuck on your screen. I don’t mean that callously, I mean that out of safety. You want horror? Imagine if the giant centipede from Centipede could stroll out of the game and into your living room. They don’t make Raid cans big enough to deal with that kind of freak-out. But luckily, they do make awesome online videos that give us an idea of the kind of insanity that would ensue should game characters burst out of a TV and roam about New York. It's called 'Pixels,' it's created by French director Patrick Jean, and it's sweeping across the web like wildfire: Highlights include Donkey Kong lobbing barrels from atop the Empire State building, Space Invaders descending upon unsuspecting taxis, Tetris blocks raining down on Manhattan, Pac-Man chomping up a subway and -- my personal favorite -- Frogger simply hopping across the street. And this time, he makes it!Jean directed the astounding piece for Paris-based visual effects company One More Production, whose other work includes a variety of commercials and even a music video by Moby. Something tells us he's going to get a lot more work soon.
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