{"id":21319,"date":"2025-12-23T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/call-of-dutys-vince-zampella-was-a-video-games-visionary\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:37:20","slug":"call-of-dutys-vince-zampella-was-a-video-games-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/call-of-dutys-vince-zampella-was-a-video-games-visionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty\u2019s Vince Zampella was a video games visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zampella created the template for multiplayer shooters that is still used today, and his cinematic and epic military, sci-fi and Star Wars games thrilled and moved millions<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vince Zampella dies aged 55 \u2013 news<\/a><\/p>\n

On Sunday, Vince Zampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty video game series, died in a car crash in Los Angeles at the age of 55. Though best known for that series of blockbuster military shooters, Zampella touched a huge number of lives \u2013 not only the hundreds of people who worked at the game development studios he led under Activision and EA, but the millions of people who played the games that bore his imprint.<\/p>\n

A lifelong gamer, Zampella had a Pong console as a child, then an Atari 2600 and a Commodore 64. He told IGN<\/a> in 2016 that his favourite game from childhood was Donkey Kong: \u201cI would spend hours at the arcade playing it.\u201d Zampella\u2019s first job in the industry was at GameTek in Miami, which specialised in video-game versions of popular US quizshows. He described his role on the small team as: \u201cproducer slash customer services slash tester \u2013 whatever needed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nZampella created the template for multiplayer shooters that is still used today, and his cinematic and epic military, sci-fi and Star Wars games thrilled and moved millions
\n\u2022 Vince Zampella dies aged 55 \u2013 news
\nOn Sunday, Vince Zampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty video game series, died in a car crash in Los Angeles at the age of 55. Though best known for that series of blockbuster military shooters, Zampella touched a huge number of lives \u2013 not only the hundreds of people who worked at the game development studios he led under Activision and EA, but the millions of people who played the games that bore his imprint.
\nA lifelong gamer, Zampella had a Pong console as a child, then an Atari 2600 and a Commodore 64. He told IGN in 2016 that his favourite game from childhood was Donkey Kong: \u201cI would spend hours at the arcade playing it.\u201d Zampella\u2019s first job in the industry was at GameTek in Miami, which specialised in video-game versions of popular US quizshows. He described his role on the small team as: \u201cproducer slash customer services slash tester \u2013 whatever needed to be done.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zampella created the template for multiplayer shooters that is still used today, and his cinematic and epic military, sci-fi and Star Wars games thrilled and moved millions \u2022 Vince Zampella dies aged 55 \u2013 news On Sunday, Vince Zampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty video game series, died in a car crash in …<\/p>\n

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