{"id":335327,"date":"2025-12-23T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=335327"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:23:57","slug":"vince-zampella-call-of-duty-co-creator-dies-in-california-car-crash-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=335327","title":{"rendered":"Vince Zampella, Call of Duty Co-Creator, Dies in California Car Crash at 55"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Infinity Ward co-founder and Respawn Entertainment leader was driving a Ferrari 296 GTS on Angeles Crest Highway north of Los Angeles when it veered off the road, hit a barrier, and caught fire around 12:45 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was trapped inside and pronounced dead at the scene; a passenger was ejected and died later at a hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-9-896x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335332\" style=\"width:682px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-9-896x1024.png 896w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-9-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-9-768x878.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-9-1344x1536.png 1344w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-9.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Zampella&#8217;s career included launching Call of Duty hits like Modern Warfare, Titanfall, and Apex Legends, which drew tens of millions of players, alongside Star Wars Jedi titles. Industry figures like Geoff Keighley and EA mourned him as a visionary whose player-first innovations sold over 425 million Call of Duty copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was trapped inside and pronounced dead at the scene; a passenger was ejected and died later at a hospital. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":335328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5053],"tags":[19073,11,19074],"class_list":["post-335327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-gaming","tag-call-of-duty","tag-usa","tag-vince-zampella"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335335,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335327\/revisions\/335335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}