Sledgehammer Games team in Foster City, California.
Sledgehammer Games team in Foster City, California, in 2020.
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Sledgehammer Games invades the UK with new Call of Duty studio

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sledgehammer Games has been dramatically expanding during its second decade as one of Activision Blizzard’s major Call of Duty development studios. And now it’s expanding into the United Kingdom with a new studio in Guildford, U.K.

The San Mateo, California-based company is leading the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard, and it is now in its second decade of operation as one of the major studios on the Call of Duty franchise, which has sold more than 400 million copies to date. As Call of Duty expands with Warzone, Zombies, premium games, and Call of Duty: Mobile, so too do the development tasks.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.