Infinity Ward to be exclusive CoD developer

Next-Gen.biz report that after the release of CoD5 later this year Infinity Ward is set to become the exclusive developer of the Call of Duty franchise. This follows a deal with Activision and IW to stop the franchise been farmed out to other developers to get more games with the CoD label to hit shelves each year.

Interestingly, the site goes on to reveal that before this deal was made the publisher had planned to let many other developers use the CoD name to build a game around. Not only was Treyarch (the developers CoD3 and the upcoming CoD5) set to develop games based on the licence, but the soon to be closed Activision Underground was working on a third-person action adventure game spin-off as well.

It should be intresting to see how Treyarch handle CoD5 now seeing as it will be thier last effort at the series.