“The move positions the Respawn Entertainment leadership team as the owners of the intellectual property they create.”

Respawn Entertainment is currently hiring to fill the studio’s roster with “a world-class team of designers, artists and engineers,” any interested can apply at jobs@respawn.com.

The move is certainly a jab at Activision, but was something many had predicted. We will soon find out if West and Zampella can recreate the magic they had at Infinity Ward and create a new franchise to claim their spot in the industry once again.

Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward sent out an interesting tweet via Twitter today showing the, hot off the presses, boxes for Modern Warfare 2. Earlier this year it had been confirmed, or at least we thought, that the game would be dropping the Call of Duty name in an effort to push itself as a new IP, that does not seem to be the case as you can see in the image above.

Honestly, what’s in a name? The change will mean nothing to the actual game, but it is interesting that Activision decided to add Call of Duty back to the game, maybe they just could not accept a year without a Call of Duty game.

“”People. This list is fake, I mean; I can’t get into how-much-if-any is true, how much is false, etc (there’s a reason why companies “don’t comment on rumors”… it would NEVER F***ING END), but this list wasn’t put together by anyone with any insider information. There’s also some craziness that should red-flag this as “stuff I made up and wrote down” (like grass camo for snipers… that’s straight out of CoD4 MP).”

While some of the information may end up being true, the list was just made up by someone hoping the changes are made. Another rumor debunked, another job well done.

A poster on the NeoGAF forums (Bumblebeetuna) has put up some interesting information, apparently a post was put up on the Twitter suggestion page for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that was from an alleged playtester with details about the game. Sure I would just look the other way and condemn this as a fake as well, but the poster was banned and the post was deleted immediately. Take the list below with a grain of salt, but it is interesting.

CoD MW2 Details:
*Vehicles will be in MW2
*M16 will return, using stopping power will only be OHK (one hit kill) at head, neck, and torso (abdomen, limbs, and hands/feet will not)
*Ak47 and M4 will return, unknown if there are any changes
*M40 will return, ACOG damage boost will be fixed
*Scorpion, P90, M21, R700, G3, G360 will not return
*There are more unknown weapons that will not return
*New sniper rifle: SR25M (United states forces)
*New Assault rifle: Diemeco C8 (Canadian forces M4 equivelant)
*New Assault rifle: L85A2 (United Kingdom forces)
*Total weapons in multiplayer are said to be around 35
*Favourite Modern warfare 1 maps will return
*Helicopters, air strikes, UAV will return

Other half after the jump…

*Red dot sightings will come in different shapes for multiplayer (circular, square, original)
*Snipers will have special grass camouflage (As seen in Modern warfare 1’s campaign)
*All perks will return from MW except eavesdrop and others will be altered
*All gametypes will return from MW and all will have hardcore versions
*New gametype: Secure (Call of duty version of capture the flag, however you capture the enemy’s Intel)
*New gametype unconfirmed name, similar to search and destroy, however instead of trying to plant a bomb, you try to kill a specified enemy
*Solider customization for each class (and each country)
*Sniper with silencers will NOT be in multiplayer
*There are NO bots in local multiplayer
*Similar version to Nazi Zombies, however details are unknown
*NO guest players online, 1 player per console
*Killcam save feature
*There is blood and gore
*Offline/Online Co-op
*Story takes place in the Middle East
*Role as US marines return
*Ken Lally voice work in campaign
*Release is set for sometime in November
*New army tags will be available to add different elements in campaign (similar to halo skulls)
*Campaign-only weapons