As one of the three primary Call of Duty developers, Call of Duty 2020 would have normally fallen to Sledgehammer Games, the lead team behind 2014?s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and 2017?s Call of Duty: WWII. Last year, it was reported that Sledgehammer was taken off as lead for Call of Duty 2020, slotting Treyarch back into rotation a year early. Sledgehammer reportedly had some friction with Activision support studio Raven Software, which caused the upset. Founders Glenn Schofield and Michael Condrey left Sledgehammer back in 2018, eventually taking a number of Sledgehammer devs with them and leaving the state of the studio uncertain. But a recent interview with GamesBeat shines a new light on Sledgehammer, now a ?multi-project studio? with plans to ?add upwards of 100 new? employees (hammers) over the course of the next year. The studio is now under the leadership of COO Andy Wilson, formerly of 2K?s Hanger 13 (Mafia III), who joined the studio in 2019, and in an email interview with GamesBeat, he made it very clear that the studio is on an upward trajectory. Wilson says that Sledgehammer has multiple projects in development, though whether that means the Call of Duty studio is branching out from the franchise or if he?s talking multiple Call of Duty titles is unknown (they are reportedly still a support studio for Call of Duty 2020). To support the increased development, they plan for 50% growth, adding over 100 new employees to the existing 200 based out of the F...