It's quite a shock to learn that David Jaffe left Sony - and by extension, the rights to the epic God of War series - to create a new company with Incognito's Scott Campbell. IGN managed to get hold of Jaffe to get some facts cleared up about him leaving Sony.

He said that he and Scott Campbell already talked about the idea of creating their own company for more than a year, and made steps toward that decision for the last eight months.

IGN also asked Jaffe why he wanted to start a new game development company rather than develop the games within Sony, to which he replied that there are some areas in the gaming world that he would like to explore, but Sony hasn't ventured into yet.

Eat Sleep Play, the company Jaffe and Campbell started, will focus more on smaller, downloadable but nevertheless kick-ass games, much like Calling All Cars. They're going to do either 2D or 3D games, whichever will work for the games that they're going to produce.

While Jaffe left Sony, Eat Sleep Play is exclusive to Sony for both console and handheld games, something that Jaffe is not averse to, claiming that he had great friends from Sony and is looking forward to a long business partnership with the PS3 makers. But what about the rights to Calling All Cars and God of War? Jaffe replied:

I don't retain the rights cause I never had them. All the games I've done are owned by Sony. I kind of hoped they would give me the God of War rights as a going away gift but, no such luck. Hell, I was even asking for small stuff. Nothing big. I told them I'd be cool if they gave me the rights to something tiny; like the rights to make God of War steak knives. But did I get it? Hell no. I got nothing. Man, I coulda sold the s*** out of those things!