15 years ago, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games overcame near-insurmountable odds to deliver Modern Warfare 3.
@MichaelCondrey, Glen Schofield, Robert Bowling, and other devs told me the dramatic story of how MW3 came to be.
Please enjoy: https://t.co/qBxGbwROfm
I won’t shut up about this, pancreatic cancer kills a person in 4 months btw, it’s resistant to radiotherapy, and fucks two essential parts of the metabolism. this could change the world
Vince was an extraordinary person — a gamer at heart, but also a visionary executive with a rare ability to recognize talent and give people the freedom and confidence to create something truly great.
I saw that up close while writing The Final Hours of Titanfall. I’ll always be deeply grateful that he trusted me to tell the story of the company’s founding. Even when it was difficult or uncomfortable, Vince never wavered in his commitment to honesty and transparency. He believed that the truth mattered, and he was willing to share it with the world.
Vince cared deeply about doing the right thing. And even while working inside large organizations, he consistently pushed to put players first -- to prioritize the experience, the craft, and the people who played the games.
He leaves behind an incredible legacy of work. I’ll miss our dinners and long conversations. And while he created some of the most influential games of our time, I always felt he still had his greatest one ahead of him. It’s heartbreaking that we’ll never get to play it.
I cannot believe I am writing this.
Vince Zampella, a titan of the video game industry, the co-creator of Call of Duty and co-founder of Respawn Entertainment, not to mention a dear friend, died in a car crash yesterday in Los Angeles.
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you.
A few days ago, I’d started to feel utterly hopeless. I began questioning whether I was honestly losing my mind after spending too much time online, consuming sensationalist content that often felt confusingly at odds with reality.
Since releasing the latest video, I’ve been overwhelmed by thousands of messages from viewers around the world who’ve genuinely restored my faith in humanity. I no longer feel alone any more.
It seems so many of you feel the same way, tired of the direction content creation seems to be heading. It’s clear this conversation is about something far bigger and more unsettling than just Japan or YouTube.
This week has left me feeling more optimistic, but also an emotionally drained wreck. Something I briefly alluded to at the end of the most recent video.
Going forward, I plan to spend drastically less time on the internet and social media (outside of releasing Abroad in Japan videos). It’s become obvious it really hasn’t been doing my health much good this year.
Recent trips to remote islands and mountain villages have reminded me that the best things in life aren’t found on a screen. They’re outdoors. Or moments surrounded with wonderful people.
With that in mind, I want to spend the rest of my time looking up at the world, not down at my phone.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to each and every one of you for your support now and over the years I’ve been lucky to do this 🙏
From the studio that brought us “EXPEDITION 33,” with Guillaume Broche, Francois Meurisse, and Tom Guillermin of Sandfall and Alexis Garavaryan of Kepler.
i beat clair obscur: expedition 33 and my life is forever changed. what a phenomenal work of art. i will carry this with me for the rest of my life. (i don't know how i'm ever going to recover from this 🥀)
thank you @SandfallGames@expedition33
A very merry 2025 to everyone! This year promises to be an eventful year and Yuki and I simply cannot wait for all the little surprises that are in store for us as a family.
May you all have a healthy, happy, and joyous year ❤️
It's been an incredible year for us here at FPS, and we wanted to thank every User who has been along for the ride. We've got big plans for 2025, and we can't wait to get started. Happy holidays, see you in January!
Disappointed we didn't get nominated for the #GameAwards Community Support award this year 😔
Our team has worked so hard for this community,
So here is a thread of everything we have done this year to celebrate them,
Strap in kids. It's a BIGGGGG one.
Chris here - just to elaborate.
Not been a fan of Mr Beast's content for many years now. I don’t think he’s bad, but like many folks his content isn’t aimed at me and thankfully his videos never appear on my homepage.
However, seeing him partner with Logan Paul, a man who's done nothing but awful act after act for almost a decade now just made me snap.
It may have been six years but I still have the dystopian fucked up image in my head, of Logan Paul vlogging himself in the Aokigahara forest, mocking somebody who was quite literally hanging from a tree before him. And rather than do what any decent person would do, and show compassion and immediately switch off the camera, he recklessly and selfishly exploited it for views. He carried on filming. He joked about it. And then he actively uploaded it to his channel.
Then I had to go on Japanese national tv and explain why a foreign YouTuber would want to exploit a man who’d tragically taken his own life for views. Understandably, everyone in Japan was confused why anyone would do such a thing.
And while I believe in forgiveness, Logan Paul hasn't exactly reformed his character. He's not a changed man - barely a week goes by without a new headline of some outrageous, awful shit he's actively partaken in.
So to see the world's largest Youtube gleefully partner with a man like that and endorse them to an audience of tens of millions of kids is something that just sickens me, all in the name of some disgustingly tacky food product, again aimed at children. I'm not sure what counter argument he has up his sleeve this time, but you can be damn sure references to philanthropy will be made in abundance.
My rant wasn’t about “making money is bad”. It was about the act of making money by partnering with a man with an abhorrent track record to sell crap food aimed at children seems like a pretty spectacular error of judgment.