The company faces wide-ranging allegations that it maintains a toxic workplace environment that - particularly at Blizzard Entertainment - is hostile to women, pays them less, and subjects them to sexual harassment, and that perpetrators are not meaningfully punished, according to a lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing in July. Swenson and Vanguard game director Josh Bridge said that the studio, with the assistance of historical advisor Marty Morgan, wanted to focus on stories about epic, tide-turning battles in diverse locations for the follow-up to WWII.īefore Sledgehammer developers got into the details about their new game, however, studio head Aaron Halon addressed the lawsuit against owner-publisher Activision Blizzard.

Those four soldiers, teased in a trailer earlier this week, are based on real-world fighters, Sledgehammer Games campaign creative director David Swenson said during a preview of Call of Duty: Vanguard last week. Polina Petrova, of the Soviet 138th Rifle Division Captain Wade Jackson, from the U.S.’s Scouting Squadron Six (Navy) and Second Lieutenant Lucas Riggs of Australia’s 20th Battalion.

Arthur Kingsley, of Britain’s 9th Parachute Battalion Lt. In the game’s single-player campaign, players will experience the war through point of view of four soldiers: Sgt. Publisher Activision and Sledgehammer Games officially revealed Call of Duty : Vanguard on Thursday, promising a different take on the well-mined second World War. 5, will span WWII’s global conflict across four fronts and tell the story of what Sledgehammer calls the birth of special forces operators. The studio’s new game, Call of Duty: Vanguard, which launches Nov. This year’s Call of Duty takes the conflict back to World War II, just as lead developer Sledgehammer Games’ previous title, Call of Duty: WWII, did in 2017.

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