Earlier today, NBC Los Angeles reported that Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder Vince Zampella was killed in a single-car crash Sunday Afternoon, just north off Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountain.
Per the California Highway Patrol, the incident was reported at around 12:45 in the afternoon, where the car veered off the road and hit a concrete barrier—ejecting the passenger and trapping the driver in the car fire that followed. The driver died at the scene and the passenger passed away at the hospital.
Additional details on how the incident occurred were not made available at this time.
Vince Zampella was best known as the creator of the highly successful ‘Call of Duty’ series, which has gone since to sell 500M units across PC, consoles, handhelds, and more—but he was also known as the lead designer for ‘Medal of Honor: Allied Assault’ before working on Call of Duty. After several years and many successful titles shipped, he then moved on after a break with the then Bobby Kotick-run publisher Activision and returned to Electronic Arts, founding Respawn Entertainment. The publisher went on to publishing Respawn’s multi-million seller ‘Titanfall’ and the wildly successful battle royale first-person shooter game ‘Apex Legends’. Recently, he was the head of a studio that handled operations for ‘Battlefield 6’, which has sold several million copies since its launch back in October.
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