Vince Zampella, who co-created the widely-popular online game Call of Duty, has died in a single-vehicle Ferrari crash in California, aged 55.
Zampella’s dying was confirmed by Electronic Arts, which owns Respawn Entertainment, a sport studio he co-founded.
The influential online game developer was travelling in a automobile with one other individual, when it crashed and caught hearth on a freeway in Los Angeles on Sunday,
“This is an unimaginable loss, and our hearts are with Vince’s family, his loved ones, and all those touched by his work,” a spokesperson for Electronic Arts instructed the BBC.
Officials mentioned the individual on the car’s passenger seat was ejected whereas the driving force remained trapped. It is unclear if Zampella was driving the automobile.
“For unknown reasons, the vehicle veered off the roadway, struck a concrete barrier, and became fully engulfed,” the California Highway Patrol mentioned in a press release to Deadline Magazine.
The BBC has contacted the California Highway Patrol for extra particulars.
Zampella created Call of Duty together with his very long time collaborator Jason West in 2003. Partly impressed by occasions in World War II, the sport has offered greater than 500 million copies making homeowners Microsoft’s Activision some of the worthwhile gaming corporations. It has additionally spawned an upcoming reside motion movie.
The Call of Duty franchise was not his solely success. He was additionally behind different video games together with the Medal of Honor, Titanfall, and Apex Legend.
“He really cared about the player experience, he cared about making games, he cared about how people felt when they played and that really came across whenever you spoke to him”,” Keza MacDonald, the Guardian’s video video games editor instructed BBC Newshour.
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