Vince Zambella, one of the creators behind best-selling video game series Call Of Duty, has died.<\/p>\n
Video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) said the 55-year-old died on Sunday but did not disclose a cause of death.<\/p>\n
It was reported he died in a car crash in Southern California<\/a>.<\/p>\n The single-vehicle collision involving a Ferrari happened in the San Gabriel Mountains at about 12.45pm local time, according to NBC Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Zampella founded Respawn Entertainment, a subsidiary of EA, in 2010 and he was the former chief executive of video game developer Infinity Ward, the studio behind the Call of Duty franchise.<\/p>\n An EA spokesperson said Zampella’s influence on the video game industry was “profound and far-reaching”.<\/p>\n “A friend, colleague, leader and visionary creator, his work helped shape modern interactive entertainment and inspired millions of players and developers around the world,” the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n “His legacy will continue to shape how games are made and how players connect for generations to come.”<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: One of Zampella’s crowning achievements was the creation of the Call of Duty franchise, which has sold more than half a billion games worldwide.<\/p>\n The first-person shooter game debuted in 2003 as a Second World War simulation, while subsequent versions have delved into modern warfare.<\/p>\n There is a live-action movie based on the game in production with Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n Zampella was also at the helm of the creation of action adventure video games Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vince Zambella, one of the creators behind best-selling video game series Call Of Duty, has died. Video game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-206284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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