{"id":197258,"date":"2025-12-23T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197258\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:00:11","slug":"call-of-duty-co-creator-vince-zampella-killed-in-car-crash-us-media-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197258\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Call of Duty\u2019 co-creator Vince Zampella killed in car crash, US media says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vince Zampella, chief executive of Respawn Entertainment. The acclaimed co-creator of video gaming juggernaut Call of Duty has died in car crash, US media reported. Photo \/ Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images, AFP<\/p>\n

Vince Zampella, the acclaimed co-creator of the video gaming juggernaut Call of Duty, has died in a car crash, United States media reported today.<\/p>\n

\n According to local broadcaster NBC4, the developer and executive died while driving his Ferrari on a scenic road north of Los Angeles. His studios created some
\n of the world\u2019s best-selling video games.\n <\/p>\n

Zampella was best known for co-creating the Call of Duty franchise and founding Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Titanfall, Apex Legends, and the Star Wars Jedi games.<\/p>\n

After starting out in the 1990s as a designer on shooter games, he co-founded Infinity Ward in 2002 and helped launch Call of Duty in 2003. Activision later acquired his studio.<\/p>\n

He left Activision under contentious circumstances and established Respawn in 2010, which Electronic Arts acquired in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 22 Dec, 2025 09:58 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37111,3043,3944,71298,3549,6179,98,3447,78,77448,3375,1073,111,139,69,1118,15267,312,9939,145,1865,9938,3040,416,57765,121738],"class_list":["post-197258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-acclaimed","tag-call","tag-car","tag-cocreator","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-duty","tag-gaming","tag-in","tag-juggernaut","tag-killed","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-reported","tag-says","tag-states","tag-technology","tag-today","tag-united","tag-us","tag-video","tag-vince","tag-zampella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}