Sledgehammer Games
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Foster City, California, USA |
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Key people
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Glen Schofield (GM/CEO), Michael Condrey (VP/COO) |
| Products | Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare |
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Number of employees
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225 |
| Parent | Activision |
| Website | sledgehammergames |
Sledgehammer Games is an American video game developer, formed in 2009 by industry veterans Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey. The pair formerly worked at Visceral Games and are responsible for the creation of Dead Space, but left before the development of the sequels. The company is an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Activision and is based in Foster City, California. This studio is known for co-developing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with Infinity Ward, and developing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which released in 2014.
Sledgehammer Games co-founders Schofield and Condrey first worked together at EA in 2005 on 007: From Russia with Love, with Condrey as director and Schofield executive producer. The collaboration carried forward to Dead Space. The two men had complementary skills and similar backgrounds—middle class with fathers in the construction business.
After founding Sledgehammer Games in July 2009, Schofield and Condrey made Activision a proposal: they would attempt to replicate their success with Dead Space, one of the industry's most successful third-person shooters, with a third-person spin-off of the Call of Duty franchise. Activision sat on the proposal for weeks until Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick offered to bring the studio into the Activision fold. Schofield and Condrey accepted, viewing Activision's independent studio model as an opportunity to preserve the company's creative culture, development methodology and staff, while having the security of an alliance with the industry's largest publisher.
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