It’s been a fairly strange few days for the gaming world.  With a hefty chunk of PS3’s unable to play games due to an internal clock error, I took that to be the high point for video game news this week.  I was clearly wrong.

Last evening, reports began coming in from sources through G4’s Patrick Klepek that a group of “bouncer-types” had shown up at the offices of Infinity Ward, one of the two main companies handling the Call of Duty franchise for publisher Activision.  Initial reports said that these people, when asked what their business was at the studio, refused to answer.

To add to the mess, studio heads, Jason West and Vince Zampella had been missing all day since a meeting with Activision.  Sources had described the mood between Activision and Infinity Ward as “tense” recently.

Soon, however, some of the pieces began to fall into place.  It was confirmed through Kotaku, as well as through NeoGAF, that Jason West’s Facebook status was listed as “Jason West is drinking.  Also, no longer employed.”  To add to the mess, the usually extremely talkative community manager for Infinity Ward, Robert Bowling, said, through his twitter, “I should also say, while I appreciate all the calls, tweets, messages and hearing my ringtone a lot. They're in vain - as I have no info.”

As of this moment, what we do know is that Activision filed an SEC report earlier today, claiming that the company was investigating two “senior employees” at the studio:

At the moment, 1UP is reporting that a source from inside Infinity Ward is claiming that Activision is. “‘flexing their muscles’ against the studio, which is attempting to ‘push back against change.’” It seems that Jason West is, in all likelihood, one of the two, and it seems just as likely that the other is Vince Zampella, though at the moment we cannot confirm this.

We will, of course, keep you informed as more information becomes available on this massive story.