Tag: Activision
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Already on Sale Just Two Weeks After Release
Get a 15% discount on PS Store now
Just two weeks to the day after its PS5, PS4 release, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is already on sale on the PS Store. This is a separate offer from the huge PS Store Black Friday sale, and it's only live until midnight on Tuesday, 2nd December 2025. Between now and then, you can save 15% on the base version of the...
Tough luck
A picture is beginning to form around Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and for the executives at Activision it’s not a particularly pretty one. What we’re generally seeing from all the data we have available thus far is that the first-person shooter is selling significantly worse than Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and has debuted way below...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Just Had the Worst Japanese Retail Launch in Series History
Not gone well, then
It's been an unusually rocky ride for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which has been widely panned and appears to be selling below the series' usual pace. While Activision has yet to provide any official sales information itself (which is kinda telling on its own), some data has begun to emerge, including a weak UK launch and, now, a...
News You No Longer Have to Endure Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Campaign to Unlock Endgame Mode
Starting tomorrow
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has some redeeming qualities, but its campaign is really dominating the conversation, with many players left baffled by it. Now, about a week after launch, developer Treyarch has announced a change that may come as welcome news to those looking to get to the good stuff. In a post on official Call of Duty...
Review Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (PS5) - The Most Absurd Game in Series History
Back to the future
Call of Duty has well and truly gone off the deep end. In Black Ops 7, the latest Treyarch effort, any hint of realism the series may have once possessed is gone. In its place are controllable machetes the size of buildings, boss encounters on a scale that would make God of War proud, and friendly zombies. The campaign is so far...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 UK Sales Plummet 61% Compared to Black Ops 6
Behind Battlefield 6, too
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was always going to sell well enough to top the UK's physical games chart at launch, but it seems it might not be performing quite to the degree you might expect. While the game is currently number one, it's actually had a smaller launch sales period than its closest competition, Battlefield 6...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Controversial AI Use Is Even Attracting Attention of US Politicians
"We need regulations"
The recently launched Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has come under heavy fire for its usage of AI-generated artwork, and it's causing such a stink that US congressmen are speaking out against it. Ro Khanna, who represents California's 17th congressional district, responded to one of the many social media posts about the game,...
News Embarrassing AI Art Plagues Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Launch
Activision confirms use of AI tools
If the utterly ridiculous co-op campaign wasn't bad enough, another negative dominating the chatter around the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is its seeming use of AI artwork in-game. In the multiplayer customisation menu, some of the Calling Cards you can attach to your profile closely resemble AI filters,...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Single Player Campaign Is Being Torn Apart
Worst one yet?
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is out today, 14th November 2025, and players are not happy, with its campaign being a particularly thorny issue. Many of the problems fans are having with the single player story are technical ones, mainly relating to the game's always online nature. For example, even when playing solo, you cannot pause...
News Call of Duty Continues to Handle PS5 Trophies in the Worst Way Possible
Black Ops 7 is another DLC Trophy list
It's another year, and because of the way Activision releases Call of Duty titles and their connection to the overall Call of Duty launcher, Black Ops 7 is another instalment classed as DLC without a Platinum Trophy on PS5. Ever since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launched in 2022, every Call of Duty release...
Rumour Crash Team Racing Could Be Making a Comeback, If This Strange Leak Is to Be Believed
Teamwork makes the dream work
There might be some kind of new Crash Team Racing title in the works at Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled developer Beenox. We emphasise the word might because this all stems from a pretty weird leak. Bear with us for this one... So, earlier this week, Beenox apparently updated the banner art on its official X (also...
News Black Ops 6 Conveniently Free Again as Battlefield 6 Battle Royale Launches
Just the multiplayer and Zombies this time
The new Battle Royale mode for Battlefield 6 launches today as a free-to-play offering, but Activision doesn't want you playing that. To try and divert your attention away from REDSEC, it's made Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 completely free for a second time on PS5, PS4. From today, 28th October, until 3rd...
News This Is Why Xbox Is Bringing All of Its Games to PS5 Now
Insight into what's been going on at Redmond
Xbox has undoubtedly become one of the biggest publishers on PlayStation – but it may not be entirely through choice. A new article from Bloomberg (paywalled) delves into the business decisions behind Microsoft’s sudden multiformat move, and while little of it will surprise, it does add clarity to...
News Call of Duty's Future Under Xbox Leaves Former Director 'Immensely Worried'
He doesn't think they're any good anymore, either
A former Call of Duty director has laid out his concerns about the state of the series in a recent interview. Glen Schofield is a name you may or may not be familiar with, but he's one of the minds behind Dead Space and the more recent Callisto Protocol. More pertinent to this story, though, is his...
News Call of Duty Is Trying Everything It Can to Make You Play Black Ops 7 Over Battlefield 6
Treyarch puts an end to skill-based matchmaking
Activision executives reportedly aren't worried about the competition today's new release, Battlefield 6, poses to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, but every move they have made in the past few months suggests they have at least one nervous eye looking over their shoulders. Treyarch is trying to please its...
News Black Ops 6 Trial Will Let You Play the Full Single Player Story for Free on PS5, PS4
Why not?
You’d think Activision would be all-in on promoting Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – especially after its relatively tame beta – but it’s actually putting a bunch of energy behind last year’s Black Ops 6 right now. Alongside a massive content drop as part of the pr
"Dominant firms become too-big-to-care"
Everything that ex-FTC chair Lina Khan said would happen is happening. Those of you who followed the drama around Microsoft’s unprecedented near-$70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard will recall Khan was one of the few voices against the buyout. She argued, at the time, that consolidation would...
News Xbox Squandered Over $300 Million Putting Call of Duty in Game Pass
At launch, 82% of full-price Black Ops 6 sales were on PlayStation
Xbox announced a remarkable 50% price increase to Game Pass this week, underlining an accusation it’s so frequently rebuffed – that the service is simply not sustainable. Now a report from Bloomberg, citing former employees who asked not to be identified, reveals tha
News Prototype Remaster Could Potentially Be Happening, Evidence Found in PC Version
Hopefully not a prototype for long
Activision's super-powered action series Prototype could be making a comeback, if we're to believe conclusions drawn from updates to the game's PC version. Both titles have received a new patch on Steam for the first time in years (ruining the mod that makes the games run properly in the process), and eagle-eyed...
News Black Ops 7 Has Turned Down 'Big, Big Brands' for Crossovers After Fan Backlash
Upcoming Call of Duty will cool it with collabs
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 pushed the boundaries of what fans deemed acceptable when it came to crossover content, with recent additions becoming more and more incongruent with the shooter franchise. Particularly after the arrival of American Dad and Beavis & Butt-Head, among others, players pushed...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Multiplayer Goes All-Out with 18 Maps at Launch
All the online details you need
Treyarch has today lifted the lid on the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 at launch, confirming there'll be 18 maps to start with, alongside 30 weapons and over 20 scorestreaks. You can get a taste for all of that in the trailer above, to the tune of Travis Scott. Three maps will return from Black Ops...
News Could You Be Persuaded to Watch a Call of Duty Movie?
Here's your chance
Every notable video game IP is being turned into a TV show or a movie nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before one of the biggest shooter franchises in the world got in on the act. Yes, a Call of Duty film, born out of a collaboration between Activision and Paramount, is officially happening. The cinema flick wants to...
News Call of Duty Dev Commits to Sensible Skins in Black Ops 7 Following Strong Community Backlash
No more Carry Forward from Black Ops 6
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 developer Treyarch has committed to ensuring the premium skins it releases for the game "fit the Black Ops identity", following the fierce community backlash to the celebrity outfits that have appeared in Black Ops 6. The team said in a Call of Duty blog post that it hears the...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Having a Tougher Time on the PS5, PS4 Pre-Order Charts
Competition intensifies
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is now available for pre-order ahead of its 14th November release date, which means you’d expect it to be top of the PS Store sales charts, right? Wrong. While it’s certainly not doing terribly by any stretch of the imagination, its Vault Edition – which includes Early Access to the game’s...
News Reactions to Stupid Call of Duty Skins May Make Dev Tone Down Black Ops 7
"There are fans that really love it"
The hardcore Call of Duty community has had enough of the ridiculous skins Treyarch has put into Black Ops 6 over the past year, and now it seems the developer will finally take that into consideration for updates in Black Ops 7. Speaking to IGN, associate creative director Miles Leslie clarified that the studio...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Avoids Battlefield 6 by a Month, Out 14th November
Open beta on 5th October
Treyarch has officially confirmed Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will launch for PS5, PS4 on 14th November 2025, meaning Battlefield 6 will have most of October to itself. You can catch the gameplay trailer above, which reveals a 2035 setting. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 redefines the franchise with a reality-shattering Co-Op...
Rumour Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Campaign May Force You into Multiplayer
An extraction ending
We already know Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s full campaign will be playable in co-op, but a new report from Insider Gaming’s reliable Tom Henderson reveals that the final mission may force you into a 32-player extraction shooter-style environment. The article – which cites anonymous sources – suggests that the game’s...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Will Go Up Against Battlefield 6 from 14th November
Good luck
Good luck to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, the upcoming first-person shooter which is going to seriously have its work cut out if it hopes to outmuscle Battlefield 6. The large-scale EA shooter will drop on 10th October, giving it a month’s head-start on Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, assuming this rumour from the ever-reliable billbil-kun is...
News Call of Duty 'Too Big to Fail' as Activision Braces for Massive Battlefield 6 Hype
This means war
We don't know if you've noticed, but there's a lot of buzz around Battlefield 6 right now — although Call of Duty publisher Activision apparently isn't worried. Hyped as a grand return to what made Battlefield... well, Battlefield, the military shooter is racking up serious support from those who have grown weary of the...
News Microsoft Reiterates It's the Top Publisher on PS5 in Earnings Call
No real surprises
As we reported earlier this week, six of the top ten PS5 games sold in Q2 2025 were published by Microsoft. With the exception of Forza Horizon 5, however – which has sold remarkably well on Sony’s system – the remaining five titles that topped the list were made by Bethesda or Activision – two historically multiformat fir
News Call of Duty HQ Size Reduction Gives Modern Warfare 3 a Platinum Trophy Two Years Late
MW2 and MW3 removed from Call of Duty HQ
The heavily criticised Call of Duty HQ app should become slightly more manageable for PS5, PS4 players later today, as Activision has announced it's removing Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 from the launcher. From 5pm BST / 9am PT on 29th July, the two titles will become separate, standalone downloads...
News In Unsurprising News, Even More Xbox Ports Are Allegedly En Route to PS5
Starfield? South of Midnight? Halo?
It used to be shocking when Xbox announced games for PS5, but it’s par for the course these days. We’ve seen titles like Forza Horizon 5 sell extraordinarily well on Sony’s system, and tentpole exlcusives like Gears of War Reloaded are on the way. Now a throwaway remark from The Game Business journa
News Tony Hawk's Latest Game Mistakenly Trashes Dead Activision IP
Developer Iron Galaxy is investigating how it happened
After Activision's existing Tony Hawk's team Vicarious Visions was absorbed by Blizzard, fans began to lose hope the third and fourth entries would ever return. Fortunately, the independent team at Iron Galaxy saved the day, and while the latest release has been well-received so far, it seems...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is the First Game Set for Gamescom Showcase
Livestream on 19th August
Geoff Keighley has confirmed Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 as the first game to be part of next month's Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase. The host says that the reveal opens the livestream in a "massive way", which is scheduled for 19th August at 7pm BST / 11am PT / 2pm PT. Coming just a year after Black Ops 6, the...
Review Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (PS5) - An Imperfect Remake, But a Great Skateboarding Game
Memory gap
A few years ago, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 brought back the iconic skateboarding series in fine form, presenting the first two games remade and in one package. It was so successful in what it set out to do that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 uses practically the exact same template. While the end result is another fantastic arcade...
Round Up Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 PS5 Reviews Say Shove-It to the Sceptics
A worthy grind
If you grew up with a PlayStation in the late 90s and early 00s, then chances are you had a Tony Hawk game. For this author, it was the original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, but many of you may have jumped in with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 on the PS2. Wherever you did your first virtual kickflip, there’s a good chance this franchise...
News Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's PS5, PS4 Trophies Look Like Less of a Grind Than 1 + 2
Manual labour
The Trophy list for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 has popped up online, and upon inspection, it looks like it won't be quite as tough as the previous game's list. Don't get us wrong, the game's Platinum gong will still be pretty hard to obtain, but some of the more grindy Trophies in THPS 1 + 2 aren't present, so it shouldn't cause...
News Xbox's Phil Spencer 'Not Retiring' After Dark Day of Cancellations and Job Cuts
At least someone's safe
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is “not retiring anytime soon”, after overseeing a disastrous day of layoffs which have devastated the Xbox division. The executive – who oversees publishers like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard following their unprecedented acquisitions – had been tipped to quit earlier in the day...
News What the Hell Has Happened to Call of Duty?
"This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before"
Fortnite’s vibrant art style works lends itself well to the pop culture blender Epic Games has created. Call of Duty’s grey, hyper-realistic art style does not. That’s why it’s so weird seeing Beavis & Butt-Head sprinting around with AK-47s in this bizarre new Premium Event...
News Mass Layoffs at Xbox Expected to Be Confirmed on 2nd July
Entire studios could be axed
Industry whispers suggest Microsoft could be poised to layoff up to 2,000 employees across Xbox as soon as next week. Bloomberg’s extremely reliable Jason Schreier first reported on the “major job cuts” earlier this week, when he cited sources familiar with the company’s plans. According to his write-up...
News Crash Team Racing Has Topped 10 Million Units, But Is Still Locked to 30fps
A crime
With a miraculous 10 million units sold across all consoles as of June 2025, the excellent Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled is one of the best-selling kart racers on the planet. The crime? It’s still locked to 30fps when played using PS5 backwards compatibility, and there’s no sign of a patch or native PS5 upgrade in sight...
News Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Will Include THPS4's Less Conventional Objectives After All
But not the minigames
Fans of the legendary Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series have been a little conflicted about the upcoming remake of 3 + 4 due to structural changes to the more open fourth instalment, but it seems that nearly all of its content will at least be included in the package. To recap, THPS 3 + 4 brings back the third and fourth games in...
News Black Ops 7 Will Be the 'Most Mind-Bending' Call of Duty Ever on PS5, PS4
The numbers, Mason
It was quite amusing seeing the reactions to the conclusion of the Xbox Showcase this week, as for a few minutes it seemed like many people were expecting an original intellectual property, until the Call of Duty logo appeared. This is, at least, a different direction for the storied shooter series, however: Black Ops 7 is...
News Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Demo Out Now, TMNT Skaters Teased in Launch Trailer
Cowabunga
A playable demo for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is now available, although you'll need to pre-order if you want to play it. For those that have, the Foundry demo contains two levels, two playable skaters, and a limited selection of the game's full soundtrack. Those that have pre-ordered the Digital Deluxe edition of the game can also...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Confirmed in Teaser Trailer, Coming to PS5, PS4
Presumably out in 2025
The big show closer, Activision has announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 from Treyarch. You can watch the teaser trailer above. The game releases for PS5 and PS4, presumably at the end of the year — though, no date was shared. The blog post on the Call of Duty website reads: "In Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Treyarch and Raven...
News Microtransactions Reach New Low in Call of Duty
More adverts in your menus
Activision is advertising Call of Duty microtransactions in-game more than ever before, as it's been spotted the recent Season 4 update for Black Ops 6 has added a new place to promote purchasable weapons in the Create a Class menu. Now, when you cycle through guns for your loadout, there's sometimes an advert in between...
News Tony Hawk Comments on Potential Tony Hawk's Underground Remake
"I'll campaign all I can"
Activision brought back the beloved Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series with its 1 + 2 remake, and now it's set to continue with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4. The natural next step is to tackle Tony Hawk's Underground, the more story focused evolution of the franchise — but will it happen? Screen Rant ran the question past...
News Concern Call of Duty Could Be About to Paywall Gameplay Modes
Pay or play
A fresh rumour has Call of Duty fans concerned Activision could be about to lock certain gameplay modes behind a paywall. The speculation – which stems from serial series leaker TheGhostofHope – claims the company is planning to lock season time-limited modes behind its Battle Pass, meaning even if you own the game, you may not...
News Xbox's Multiformat Move to PS5 Seems to Be Working Out Very Well for Microsoft
CEO praises performance on PS Store
Microsoft’s gradual transition to multiformat publisher appears to be working out well for the platform holder, as its hardware sales continue to torpedo but software sales increase. The trillion-dollar tech titan announced a five per cent year-over-year increase in gaming revenue for the quarter ending 31st...
News Age Ratings Suggest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and 3 Remasters Heading for PS5
Age ratings discovered
Newly spotted age ratings for a pair of Call of Duty games suggest they're getting current-gen ports in the near future. As reported by Insider Gaming, Australia's classification board has listings for what appear to be PS5 versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The campaign remaster...
