Respawn's Jason West and Vince Zampella

Normally we're in our homes. Right now we're in a hotel conference room. We'll be moving into a space soon.

Yeah we're going to start to look for office space and stuff this week, and spin all that up.

Yeah, we're literally turning on the email, setting up the website, and tonight we'll hopefully be reading a lot of resumes and figuring out where to go from there.

[Laughter] Yeah, we spent a lot of time on it.

It's not overwhelming is it?

I wouldn't say that. It was pretty traumatic, and that first week was rough, but like Vince said, it was great to get all the interest from all the publishers and the gaming community, and I think that renewed my spirits at least.

Yeah, definitely. And we're glad that this is a chance for something new, we're able to get back into doing what we love, so this is really, on both fronts really exciting for us.

Now it's fantastic, we can get back to what we want to be doing, making great games. It's a very exciting time.

Oh, I've always been a gamer, I play board games, pen and paper RPGs, I play videogames, I always have. I got into gaming - I don't even know or want to say how many years ago. It'll make me feel old. For me, getting into it - an opportunity came up and it was just a natural fit: 'I can get paid to do that?' I've been in games for a long time and when you can get paid to do something that you love, you're lucky.

It's the same type of thing for me... You're always playing games, you love games and you even necessarily realise that there's a job to make 'em. 'Oh wow, people get paid to do that! I'd like to do that.' I'd always loved multiplayer games and playing with friends and getting into creating these types of experiences for people is very rewarding. It's like making Christmas presents for people, and hopefully they unwrap it and they're very excited.

I took, like, two days off to see what it would be like to take some time off and then started climbing the walls. So I got back to talking about new business ventures and trying to get a publishing deal, so I don't think I've had much time off.

It was a pretty good holiday season last year so there were a lot of games that I wanted to play. There was Mass Effect 2 I recently finished, and Assassin's Creed II...

I was playing Bad Company 2 when I thought up the name, Respawn Entertainment. [Laughter.]

We can't comment on anything...

Yeah, that's not in our area...

We're not associated with that in any way and we don't comment on other people.

Hi, sorry Tom. These guys can't comment on Infinity Ward.