{"id":880049,"date":"2025-12-23T06:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/obituary-famed-developer-vince-zampella-has-passed-away-at-age-55\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:11:46","slug":"obituary-famed-developer-vince-zampella-has-passed-away-at-age-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/obituary-famed-developer-vince-zampella-has-passed-away-at-age-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Famed developer Vince Zampella has passed away at age 55"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vince Zampella, noted for the Call of Duty series, and leadership at Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment, died in a motor vehicle accident this Sunday. <\/span>NBC Los Angeles<\/a><\/span> reports the developer was involved in a single car accident when the car veered off the road on the Angeles Crest highway, and did not survive his injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zampella’s career in the game industry spanned <\/span>several decades<\/a><\/span>, beginning with GameTek and Atari in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, he worked as the development director of <\/span>Metal of Honor: Allied Assault<\/span><\/span> and then produced or executive produced several of the early Call of Duty titles, marking his place in FPS (and indeed, all of game) history. In 2020, he co-founded Respawn Entertainment with Jason West. In 2021, he became the <\/span>head of the Battlefield franchise<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alongside Call of Duty and Battlefield, Zampella is known for the Apex Legends, Titanfall, and Star Wars: Jedi series. The well-regarded <\/span>Battlefield 6<\/span><\/span> is one of the most recent titles he helped to ship.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Danielle is the editor-in-chief of Game Developer, with previous editorial posts at Fanbyte, VICE, and Polygon. She\u2019s also a lecturer in game design at the Berklee College of Music, and a hobbyist game developer in her spare time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vince Zampella, noted for the Call of Duty series, and leadership at Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment, died in a motor vehicle accident this Sunday. NBC Los Angeles reports the developer was involved in a single car accident when the car veered off the road on the Angeles Crest highway, and did not survive his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,1147,33463],"tags":[7872,12807],"class_list":{"0":"post-880049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-famed","9":"category-obituary","10":"tag-famed","11":"tag-obituary"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}