Rumor: This year’s Call of Duty is PS5, Modern Warfare 3 for PS4

is as a matter of fact That time of year already? It feels like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 just released, but we guess Activision had to go back to the well, because we doubt the Crash Team Rumble will top its bank balance this year alone. So here we are, then, a Report from reliable rumours Tom Henderson: Sledgehammer Games is making Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Yes, you read that right: Modern Warfare. 3.

The lucrative franchise was rumored for the longest time to take a year off and offer “premium DLC” for Modern Warfare 2 in 2023. But Henderson claims that, while these reports were true at one time, there have been plans since then. changed He writes: “This year’s title is a fully fleshed out sequel to Modern Warfare 2. Modern Warfare 3 will feature a campaign, multiplayer, zombies, and a new Warzone 2.0 map throughout the title’s first season.” What can happen possibly go wrong?

Apparently, the aforementioned Warzone 2.0 map will be inspired by Las Almas, which was previously discovered as an Easter egg within Modern Warfare 2’s campaign. Meanwhile, Zombies mode is currently named Outbreak 2.0, and can do Still potentially released separately as a free-to-play download – Activision is still weighing all its opportunities, apparently. Either way, the title is reportedly due out on November 10th, with the Early Access campaign unlocking a week earlier on November 2nd.

And by the way, Sony rather strange still The series has the marketing rights, so it will have dibs on the game’s first beta weekend in October, whether or not Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition is completed by then. (But that looks unlikely at the moment, with any appeal to the CMA likely to drag out proceedings into 2024 and beyond.)