Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Was An Immense Seven Studio Effort

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III seems to have been a major effort taking seven of Activision’s studios to work on, but we may already know the reason for that.

Tech4Gamers reported that a total of 7 studios were brought together to produce this game. The expected big three studios are here, in Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch, and Infinity Ward. They are joined by four of the many support studios Activision has assigned to the release.

Those four studios are Beenox, Raven Software, High Moon Studios, and Demonware. You may recognize the first three of these four studios as the makers of some of the most popular and critically acclaimed non-Call of Duty related games Activision has even published. For example, High Moon Studios worked closely with Hasbro to make the Transformers: War for Cybertron games, that Hasbro now wants to see get a rerelease, on Game Pass to boot.

So, the discourse over how Activision has acquired several talented studios only to make them Call of Duty support studios isn’t new at all. We know they could be making more than Call of Duty games, and Activision has chosen to dedicate those talents to only one game.

For those curious, Demonware doesn’t make video games. They’re actually a middleware developer, specializing in middleware to enable online features.

In the case of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Activision may have had good reason to pool together seven studios, including the three big ones, onto this one project. That reason being that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is rumored to be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II content, that Activision decided to spin off into its own game.

Why the rush? That’s because Microsoft and Activision hadn’t safely completed their merger acquisition