{"id":48232,"date":"2022-08-17T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-call-of-duty-skin-appears-to-plagiarise-former-infinity-ward-employee-working-on-dr-disrespect-game\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:25:40","slug":"new-call-of-duty-skin-appears-to-plagiarise-former-infinity-ward-employee-working-on-dr-disrespect-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-call-of-duty-skin-appears-to-plagiarise-former-infinity-ward-employee-working-on-dr-disrespect-game\/","title":{"rendered":"New Call of Duty skin appears to plagiarise former Infinity Ward employee working on Dr Disrespect game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new skin has been released in Call of Duty, which bears a striking resemblance to the work of former Infinity Ward employee Robert Bowling.\n<\/p>\n<p>Bowling is now studio head at Midnight Society, the developer behind the NFT-fuelled shooter Deadrop that&#8217;s backed by Dr Disrespect.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fourzerotwo\/status\/1543070180795768832?s=20&amp;t=53Ag_fKR5xUZzMJBfTdgLQ\" target=\"_blank\">Art for Deadrop was revealed in July<\/a>but now a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlieINTEL\/status\/1559275216907505669?s=20&amp;t=XNyE8fVSpKKXBgaRISoT3A\" target=\"_blank\">very similar looking skin<\/a> called Doomsayer is available in Call of Duty Vanguard and Warzone.\n<\/p>\n<p><figure><figcaption>Eurogamer Newscast: Are Sony and Microsoft&#8217;s squabbles over Call of Duty just business as usual?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Both characters feature a dark mechsuit design with an ice blue skull mask and a hood.\n<\/p>\n<p>Though there are small differences, they appear perhaps too similar to be mere coincidence.  Then again, they&#8217;re also similar to the protagonist from cyberpunk action platformer Ghostunner too.\n<\/p>\n<p>bowling has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fourzerotwo\/status\/1559425179150721025?s=20&amp;t=F7vgjrK-PCqX1_Lazwz5OA\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged the design with a tweet<\/a> that simply reads: &#8220;At least name it after me&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found out about this due to my mentions blowing up from our community tagging me in their replies,&#8221; he told Kotaku, before sending a photo of a legendary-tier Call of Duty sniper rifle called &#8220;Corporate Theft&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest controversial design in Call of Duty.\n<\/p>\n<p>Activision was recently forced to apologise and remove a dog skin following plagiarism accusations from a concept artist.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n    function appendFacebookPixels() {\n      if (window.facebookPixelsDone) return;\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>        fbq('init', '560747571485047');\n        fbq('init', '738979179819818');<\/p>\n<p>      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      window.facebookPixelsDone = true;<\/p>\n<p>      window.dispatchEvent(new Event('BrockmanFacebookPixelsEnabled'));\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    window.addEventListener('BrockmanTargetingCookiesAllowed', appendFacebookPixels);\n  <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new skin has been released in Call of Duty, which bears a striking resemblance to the work of former Infinity Ward employee Robert Bowling. Bowling is now studio head at Midnight Society, the developer behind the NFT-fuelled shooter Deadrop that&#8217;s backed by Dr Disrespect. Art for Deadrop was revealed in Julybut now a very &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-call-of-duty-skin-appears-to-plagiarise-former-infinity-ward-employee-working-on-dr-disrespect-game\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Call of Duty skin appears to plagiarise former Infinity Ward employee working on Dr Disrespect game<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48353,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/call-of-duty-accused-of-plagiarizing-skin-from-ex-infinity-ward-director-at-least-name-it-after-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":48232,"position":0},"title":"Call of Duty Accused of Plagiarizing Skin from Ex-Infinity Ward Director: &#8216;At Least Name It After Me&#8217;","date":"August 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Activision has been accused of plagiarism for the second time this month after adding a skin to Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone that looks similar to a character from an ex-Infinity Ward director's new game.As reported by Metro, Call of Duty's new Doomsayer skin has been likened to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30639,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dr-disrespect-reveals-first-gameplay-demo-for-his-fps-deadrop\/","url_meta":{"origin":48232,"position":1},"title":"Dr.  Disrespect reveals first gameplay demo for his FPS &#8216;Deadrop&#8217;","date":"July 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Midnight Society, the developer founded by streamer Guy 'Dr Disrespect' Beahm, has debuted the first look at its first-person shooter Deadrop.On Friday, the studio officially named the PvP multiplayer title \u2013 which plans to incorporate NFTs \u2013 and debuted a first playable 'snapshot' of the game, which is available to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31729,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dr-disrespect-reveals-deadrop-his-fps-along-with-the-first-real-gameplay-footage\/","url_meta":{"origin":48232,"position":2},"title":"Dr.  Disrespect Reveals &#8216;DEADROP,&#8217; His FPS, Along With The First Real Gameplay Footage","date":"August 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"DEADROPS Midnight Society I continue to be interested in the saga of Dr. Disrespect, his studio Midnight Society and his new game, which now has an official name, DEADROP, after previously being called Project Moon. 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