Tag Archive: Infinity Ward

Lessons not learned

There is a peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown looks at Linus and says “That’s just an old wives tale” – to which Linus replies, “I don’t know, some of those old wives were pretty sharp.”  As trite as some of us think “old adages” are, the thing about them is that they are based on…

Don’t cross this line

There are some lines that you can’t cross and some that you can.  In Washington D.C., for example, you don’t threaten social security and expect to get re-elected to any position short of dog catcher. There are other lines you can cross, but like a dog who gets beat, you can only beat him so…

These boots were made for walking

When someone acquires a business, usually through sale but not always, part of the value of the property in the transaction is “good will.”  Basically this accounts for the value of the business beyond its physical assets.   Now some of you may say at this point “what has that got to do with anything?”  Well,…

Your mother wears army boots!

It’s hard to imagine that anyone who reads this web site (there are some of you out there we can hear you breathing) hasn’t heard of all that has transpired between Activision and the two former heads of Infinity Ward Jason West and Vince Zampella.  For those of you who have not heard of the…