US EditionVince Zampella, Call of Duty Co-Creator, Dies in California Car Crash
- On Sunday, Vince Zampella, 55, was killed in a car crash on Southern California's Angeles Crest Highway, NBC4 reported.
- A co-founder of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella helped create Call of Duty with Jason West and co-founded Respawn Entertainment in 2010 after suing Activision.
- Authorities said the single-car crash was reported at about 12:45 p.m. when a southbound Ferrari veered off, hit a concrete barrier, caught fire, and trapped the driver in the San Gabriel Mountains.
- Industry leaders say the death removes a prominent creative executive as Respawn Entertainment, led by Vince Zampella, loses a long-time leader behind Titanfall, Apex Legends and STAR WARS Jedi.
- Investigators say the cause remains undetermined as the California Highway Patrol continues probing why the Ferrari left the windy mountain road, with a passenger ejected and later dying.
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Vince Zampella, creator of the popular video games Call of Duty and the Star Wars Jedi series, has died in a car accident in Southern California. The gaming industry has remembered him as a visionary creator whose contributions will always be remembered.
The gaming world mourns one of its greatest: Vince Zampella, co-developer of Call of Duty, is dead. He became 55 years old.
Vince Zampella didn’t just make hit games. He changed the medium.
When I think about Vince Zampella, and it’s often, I don’t think about him as just the founder of studios that “created several of the world’s best-selling video games,” as NBC4 Los Angeles reports in its story about his fatal car crash Sunday. I don’t even think about how the 55-year-old game developer co-created Call of Duty, an intellectual property worth tens of billions of dollars and consistently the best-selling game series almost every y…
“Call of Duty” video game developer Vince Zampella dies in fiery crash
Video game CEO Vince Zampella, whose former company Infinity Ward developed popular titles including “Call of Duty,” died in a single-car crash Sunday. The 55-year-old executive’s 2026 Ferrari became “fully engulfed” in flames after slipping off Southern California’s Angeles Crest Highway and hitting a concrete barrier shortly before 1 p.m., according to NBC News in Los Angeles. California Highway Patrol (CHP) confirmed the crash Monday, but cou…
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