Sledgehammer Games, the developer behind this November's Call of Duty: Vanguard, is opening a new office, its first in the UK. After establishing offices in Melbourne, Australia (2019) and Toronto, Canada (2021), Sledgehammer is now opening an office in Guildford, United Kingdom.

Liz Wyle, a former director of product development at PlayStation Europe, is the general manager of Sledgehammer Games Guildford. "Guildford has a long history of video game development, and as a result, there's a lot of top-tier talent and an existing game dev community there and in the surrounding towns. We're also an easy reverse commute in from London, which has a huge talent pool," Wyle said.

Sledgehammer's Guildford team will work alongside Sledgehammer's main HQ in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Melbourne and Toronto, to work on Vanguard's live-service elements and "future projects [that are] planned for the years ahead."