This is one of those videos that can be filed under “supremely awesome” for gamers. Most of you will remember “The Pit” from the beginning of Modern Warfare 2. It was the trial level that you had to get through to estimate your skill in the game. The UK Gadget Show decided to do something seriously cool by building the …

You’d expect that with unceremonious, but scandalous ousting of Jason West and Vince Zampella, staff at Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward would be leaving en masse. They’re not though. The reasons for this – while hardly surprising, considering this is Activision – are still shocking. Hit the jump to read more. Last Updated: March 12, 2010

Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has tweeted out that there are over 25 million unique players who have logged on and played a match of Modern Warfare 2. That’s an incredibly impressive number and while a large portion of those are no longer active gamers it does show just how big the community is around the game. Last Updated: March 10, …

Lazygamer’s overlord Gavin surmised that the “breach of contract” that’s currently hanging over the heads of ex Infinity Ward heads was that they were actively looking for new publishers. Seems he – in his beer- fuelled wisdom – may have been right. An document, purloined by G4TV purports to be an internal Activision memo detailing internal investigations alleges that West …

The soap opera that is the Infinity Ward / Activision story just keeps on going and now has a new chapter that we can add to the mix. Yesterday Jason and Vince (ex IW execs) filed suit against Activision claiming a whole bunch of money and some other stuff which Activision has now responded to. Last Updated: March 5, 2010

You’d expect that – being the leaders of the team that’ve created and nurtured one of the most successful franchises in videogame history – you’d be duly rewarded by your overlords, right? Well, no. Instead, the millions of dollars of royalties owed were withheld, with said team leaders being sensationally fired for “insubordination.” Would you go down without a fight? …

So we are still waiting on something official to be announced by Infinity Ward or Activision but as we sit now this is what we know or have seen being rumoured. [Activision have broken their silence and confirmed point 1 below, however no reason has been announced as yet] Jason West and Vince Zampella have both been fired. Infinity Ward …

[Another Update]: It appears Activision broadcast their intentions on this one by informing the SEC that due to a human resource investigation into 2 senior IW employees they are expecting the departure of key personnel and litigation… ouch. [Update] Jason West has Tweeted that he is now drinking and unemployed and has updated his LinkedIn page to state that he …