{"title":"Sledgehammer Games","description":"\u003cp\u003eSledgehammer Games was founded on July 21, 2009 by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, two EA Redwood Shores veterans whose partnership already carried real weight with action fans. Condrey directed and Schofield executive produced 007: From Russia with Love before the pair went on to create Dead Space, the claustrophobic survival horror game that showed how much tension a third-person shooter could build. Their first pitch to Activision followed that thread: a third-person, action-adventure spin-off of Call of Duty designed to recapture what had made Dead Space work. Instead of simply signing the project, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick offered to bring the studio into Activision itself, and the founders accepted, seeing it as a way to protect the culture they were building while working under the industry's largest publisher. The team spent six to eight months on the spin-off and produced a prototype of about fifteen minutes of play before events elsewhere changed its course. When Infinity Ward split in 2010, its co-founders leaving with several staff and roughly half the team facing about twenty months to finish the next game, Activision asked Sledgehammer to set the prototype aside and co-develop Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The staff approved the move unanimously. Released in November 2011, it became the first co-developed Modern Warfare title, carrying both studios' logos on the packaging, and both teams steered it toward Europe to pay off the story told across the previous four years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith that proving ground behind it, Sledgehammer took the lead on its own Call of Duty entries. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, released on November 4, 2014, pushed the series into the near future with exoskeleton suits that added boost jumps, quick dodges and a new vertical layer to every firefight. Call of Duty: WWII followed on November 3, 2017, bringing the franchise back to boots-on-the-ground combat, and Call of Duty: Vanguard arrived on November 5, 2021. In between, the studio served as a partner on Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War in 2020 after Activision moved the lead role to Treyarch. Schofield and Condrey left in February 2018; Condrey joined 2K's 31st Union in 2019, and Schofield founded Striking Distance Studios that same year. Sledgehammer meanwhile grew into a multi-project developer, opening a Melbourne, Australia studio by September 2019, passing 200 staff by May 2020, adding a Toronto studio in May 2021, topping 450 employees by August 2021 and opening a Guildford, UK studio in October 2021. Parent Activision became part of Microsoft Gaming in October 2023, the same year Sledgehammer delivered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, the franchise's twentieth release. A 2024 Microsoft Gaming restructuring closed the Foster City, California headquarters and laid off thirty percent of the studio's employees, and in June 2026 Sledgehammer relocated its headquarters to a new studio in San Francisco, California, where it now operates under studio head Aaron Halon. For players, its catalog traces a team that learned Call of Duty by finishing one of the series' most demanding chapters and then kept reshaping how the franchise moves and feels.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-pc-download","title":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 brings the original Modern Warfare trilogy to its close. Picking up in the hours after Modern Warfare 2, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games carry the war from the streets of New York to the capitals of Europe, as the survivors of Task Force 141 hunt Vladimir Makarov through a world that is coming apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA World War Campaign\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussia's invasion of the United States has spread to Europe, and the campaign follows it from one front to the next. As Sgt. Derek \"Frost\" Westbrook of Delta Force, you fight through a burning Manhattan, from Wall Street to a submarine raid in New York Harbor, before the fighting moves on to Hamburg, Paris and Berlin. Running alongside, Captain Price, Soap MacTavish and a new ally, the ex-Spetsnaz soldier Yuri, work off the grid from Africa to Prague, chasing the man who started it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set pieces show the series at full scale: an SAS pursuit through the London Underground, a zero-gravity firefight aboard a crippled aircraft, and a push through a gas-choked Paris as landmarks fall around you. Switching between Delta Force, the SAS and Task Force 141 keeps the pace relentless and the perspective shifting, right up to a final reckoning that closes the story Call of Duty 4 began in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMultiplayer Built on Strike Packages\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe multiplayer rethinks how you earn your rewards, giving objective players and slayers alike a route to the big payoffs across 16 launch maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eStrike Packages\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eChoose Assault, Support or Specialist before you spawn. Assault rewards unbroken streaks with lethal air support, Support streaks carry through your deaths and lean on UAVs, ammo drops and ballistic vests, while Specialist hands you extra perks as you chain kills.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePointstreaks\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKills are only part of the equation. Capturing flags, planting bombs and securing objectives all count toward your streak, so the player holding the point is rewarded as surely as the one topping the scoreboard.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWeapon Proficiency\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEvery gun levels up as you use it, unlocking attachments, camos and Proficiencies such as Kick, Focus and Stability that shape how that weapon handles. Your favorite rifle grows with you over hundreds of matches.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eKill Confirmed and Team Defender\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKill Confirmed makes you collect the dog tags of fallen enemies to score, and deny the other team theirs, while Team Defender turns a single dropped flag into a moving objective. Both sit alongside the classic Team Deathmatch, Domination and Search and Destroy rotation.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpec Ops: Missions and Survival\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpec Ops is the co-op heart of Modern Warfare 3, built for a partner but just as playable alone, and it runs on two distinct tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMissions are self-contained operations with their own objectives and twists, each rated by stars and ranked on leaderboards. They reward coordination, clean execution and the willingness to replay a run until every star is earned.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurvival Mode drops one or two players onto the multiplayer maps against escalating waves of enemy soldiers, attack dogs and Juggernauts. Cash earned between waves buys weapons, equipment and air support at the armories, and your Survival rank unlocks more of the arsenal as you climb.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy It Still Matters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Warfare 3 was one of the biggest entertainment launches of its era and the last chapter of the trilogy that redefined the military shooter. Its campaign ties off years of story around Price, Soap and Makarov, and its multiplayer ideas, from Pointstreaks to weapon leveling, left a mark on the Call of Duty games that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have followed Price since Call of Duty 4, this is where the story ends. Gear up, find Makarov and see the Modern Warfare trilogy through to its final shot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Activision","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34750885196,"sku":"AMZ_B00503EAG2","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-pc-steam-game.jpg?v=1790641759"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-fr\/collections\/sledgehammer-games.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}