04-16-2019, 12:25 AM
Respawn and Infinity Ward co-founder Jason West has joined Epic Games
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/respawn-and-infinity-ward-co-founder-jason-west-has-joined-epic-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Epic Games has made a notable hire in the form of Respawn and Infinity Ward co-founder Jason West. </p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1116715991088627714">According to The Game Awards creator and journalist Geoff Keighley</a>, Epic brought in West around a month ago to help the company scale up its own internal development efforts. (<strong>Update:</strong> Speaking to <a href="https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/jason-west-joins-epic-games-1203188178/">Variety</a>, Epic has since confirmed Keighley’s original report.)</p>
<p>As you’ll no doubt recall, Epic has been busy of late, opening its own Steam rival called the Epic Games Store and <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/340018/Borderlands_3_will_be_a_sixmonth_Epic_Games_Store_exclusive_on_PC.php">filling it with a variety of big-name exclusives</a> like <em>Borderlands 3</em>, <em>Metro: Exodus</em>, and<em> Control</em>. </p>
<p>It’s unclear whether West will be working on existing projects like<em> Fortnite</em>, or new games that could be used to expand the Epic Games Store growing list of exclusives. </p>
<p>For those of you wondering why West left Respawn in the first place, the one-time <em>Call of Duty</em> overseer <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187709/Jason_West_leaves_Respawn_Entertainment__report.php">departed back in 2010</a> to spend more time with his family, and before that was fired from Activision for alleged insubordination.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/respawn-and-infinity-ward-co-founder-jason-west-has-joined-epic-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Epic Games has made a notable hire in the form of Respawn and Infinity Ward co-founder Jason West. </p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1116715991088627714">According to The Game Awards creator and journalist Geoff Keighley</a>, Epic brought in West around a month ago to help the company scale up its own internal development efforts. (<strong>Update:</strong> Speaking to <a href="https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/jason-west-joins-epic-games-1203188178/">Variety</a>, Epic has since confirmed Keighley’s original report.)</p>
<p>As you’ll no doubt recall, Epic has been busy of late, opening its own Steam rival called the Epic Games Store and <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/340018/Borderlands_3_will_be_a_sixmonth_Epic_Games_Store_exclusive_on_PC.php">filling it with a variety of big-name exclusives</a> like <em>Borderlands 3</em>, <em>Metro: Exodus</em>, and<em> Control</em>. </p>
<p>It’s unclear whether West will be working on existing projects like<em> Fortnite</em>, or new games that could be used to expand the Epic Games Store growing list of exclusives. </p>
<p>For those of you wondering why West left Respawn in the first place, the one-time <em>Call of Duty</em> overseer <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187709/Jason_West_leaves_Respawn_Entertainment__report.php">departed back in 2010</a> to spend more time with his family, and before that was fired from Activision for alleged insubordination.</p>
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