As part of the gradual process of Warzone‘s shutdown on PS4 and Xbox One, the content for the title that can be purchased, like Call of Duty League Operator Packs, COD Points, and BlackCell, will also be removed from all PS4 and Xbox One menus, as well as the in-game stores. The battle pass, however, will remain available through the in-game store, giving players the option to at least get their hands on the rewards from its free tiers.

June 25th onwards, the in-game store on PS4 and Xbox One will also be completely removed. However, its servers will remain available until the end of Season 6 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

Activision has noted that, as long as players continue to use the same PlayStation or XBOX account that was linked with their Activision account, they can continue to play Call of Duty: Warzone with all of their progression intact on the current-generation consoles and PC. Full progression and content purchased with COD points will carry over. COD Points themselves, however, will only be available on a console in the same family. This means that only players moving from PS4 to PS5 will keep their COD Points.

The company has also confirmed that it doesn’t yet have plans to shut down the servers of its older Call of Duty games. As such, titles like 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will continue to remain playable online.

This announcement comes shortly after Activision and Infinity Ward officially unveiled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. The title is slated for release on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 on October 23rd, and will tell a brand new story that revolves around North Korea invading South Korea, and in the process, turning the entire peninsula into a warzone.

The title will also mark the return of Call of Duty: DMZ – a PvPvE extraction game mode where players can jump into a map to complete a few objectives and get their hands on some loot before they need to extract successfully. More details about the new DMZ mode are slated to be coming on June 7th.

Activision has also confirmed that the campaign for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be purely single-player, with no plans for a co-op mode in the vein of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Fans of the multiplayer modes will also be happy to learn that it will launch with 12 new core maps, with Infinity Ward promising the “most authentic” gunplay that it has been able to achieve so far.

You’re going to go to Avalon, where there are no loadouts and all of your killing tools must be scavenged off the bodies of your enemies. It’s a massive place with an ever-shrinking boundary in which your squad of four must fight for every inch of ground you gain against no less than 25 other teams.

Your loadout is dependent on what you’re able to find, but upgrading gear is shaping up to be quite seamless, per this deep dive on the official website for those who want the full rundown of what this one brings to the table. The short version is that your weapons come with unique Archetypes, and finding one you like lets you upgrade it via Attachment Kits, improving on its rarity with apparently immediate effects. You’re going to need every advantage you can get as your opponents are going to come at you on land, from the air, and even from the water, depending on the vehicles they’re able to gain access to.

Of course, the same goes for you and your team. It’s a free-for-all with a lot of cool stuff, and it should keep Call of Duty: Warzone fans occupied for hours. Blackout players will find a lot of familiar tools like the Sensor Dart, Trauma Kit, Grappling Hook, and the return of the Perk System, albeit in a streamlined form.

Blacks Ops Royale is free to play and drops on March 12 at 9 PM PT. You can check out the trailer and all its chaos below.

Why is that a problem? The Call of Duty App doesn’t just include Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which launched last year to underwhelming reviews due to its campaign. It also tracks Black Ops 6, Warzone, the Modern Warfare series, and much more. Keep in mind that these player counts follow Holiday discounts and even a free week. The sad part is that this isn’t even the lowest in the past week, as it reached 39,015 peak concurrent players on January 8th.

Of course, none of this changes the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 topped last November’s US sales charts (even if Battlefield 6 emerged as the top-selling premium game of 2026). Engagement with the app on consoles in the region was also as strong as ever, only lagging behind Fortnite and eking out ahead of Grand Theft Auto 5.

Nevertheless, Activision has pivoted significantly by announcing that it would no longer release back-to-back Modern Warfare and Black Ops titles. “We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental. While we aren’t sharing those plans today, we look forward to doing so when the time is right.” Its developers have apparently been building the “next era of Call of Duty,” and judging by the current release cycle, it may be Modern Warfare 4.

In the meantime, check out our review for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 here. We gave it a five out of ten for the multiplayer (despite netcode and hit registration issues), and Zombies (despite the overtly safe gameplay loop). The campaign is an utter disaster, but at least Treyarch released an update to let you skip it and go straight to Endgame.

On Xbox? Fortnite, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto 5, Roblox and Minecraft. What’s even crazier is that these are the same as 2024’s most-played titles on both platforms, though Call of Duty on Xbox fell from first to second place year-over-year.

However, despite critics and fans dragging last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 for its horrendous campaign, and Battlefield 6 emerging as the best-selling premium title, the brand still has some pull. Of course, there’s also the free-to-play component, Call of Duty: Warzone, which remains a significant presence. The same goes for Grand Theft Auto Online, although even standalone, it isn’t free.

Then again, Grand Theft Auto 5 has shipped over 220 million units and is available on three different console generations, so its popularity seems a given. Which only makes you wonder just how much more successful Grand Theft Auto 6 will be, even if it doesn’t ship with its own multiplayer mode at launch. It’s slated for launch on November 19th after two big delays.

According to Circana senior director Mat Piscatella, it ranked seventh in the weekly active player charts for PlayStation and sixth for Xbox. This is for the week ending October 18th – before this, it ranked in 12th and eighth places respectively. By comparison, Call of Duty HQ, which is where you go to access all things Call of Duty (including Black Ops 6 and Warzone), ranked second on both platforms.

Compare this to the weekly active players on Steam for the same week in the US and Canada, where Battlefield 6 ranked first and Call of Duty HQ is nowhere to be seen. It only echoes Piscatella’s previous report about how its sales are “among the best seen for a premium game” in the region.

However, with Battlefield: RedSec, a standalone free-to-play battle royale experience, going live today, we may see a week where Call of Duty bends the knee. In the meantime, check out our review for Battlefield 6, which has sold over seven million copies in three days.

As reported by Washington Post, Activision has announced that the Call of Duty franchise has now sold over 500 million units worldwide to date across all of its instalments to date. Of course, major successes in the series like Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty Mobile are free-to-play titles, which means they don’t contribute to this figure- which makes it that much more impressive.

Interestingly enough, this makes Call of Duty the second-highest selling video game franchise to date, based on most recently shared numbers. Though Mario is still far ahead of it, the shooter series has now surpassed the likes of Tetris, Pokemon, and Grand Theft Auto.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is available on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 comes to the service on October 25th for cloud, console, and PC. However, as recently announced, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Warzone will also get cloud support on the same day (at least for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers). Ashen also returns on October 29th for cloud, consoles, and PC.

For PC players craving Halloween hijinks, Dead Island 2 debuts for PC via Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on October 31st. StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2: Campaign Collection follow on November 5th.

Of course, several titles are leaving the service on October 31st. Check them out below.

• Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Headbangers (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Inkulinati (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Mineko’s Night Market (Cloud, Console, and PC)

As announced by Microsoft, on October 25 – which is the day that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches – three titles from the franchise will become playable via Xbox Cloud Gaming. More specifically, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to play Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, last year’s Callof Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and Call of Duty: Warzone natively on Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Modern Warfare 3 is, of course, already available on Game Pass proper, while Black Ops 6 is set to follow suit on the day of its release later this month. Where the latter is concerned, its multiplayer and Zombies modes will only be available to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers. Read more on that through here.

Upon its launch later this month, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

“#TeamRICOCHET identified and banned over 27,000 accounts over the weekend through a series of upgraded detection systems,” said Activision’s Team Ricochet to CharlieIntel. “The team is progressing on a new set of security updates and anticipates more ban waves to come.”

While the exact details about how the detection system works haven’t been revealed, it is quite likely that the number of suspicious accounts over the weekend was higher owing to the fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had a free trial for its multiplayer and Zombies modes until yesterday.

As Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone recently kicked off its third season, rumours are also going around of the back catalog of the franchise making its way on to PC and Xbox Game Pass. This, of course, is further compounded by the fact that Activision is now officially part of Microsoft’s studios. Microsoft is rumoured to be preparing an announcement related to these older titles during its upcoming summer showcase.

Activision says over 27,000 accounts were banned in Call of Duty, across Warzone and MW3, over the weekend.

Statement from Team RICOCHET:

"#TeamRICOCHET identified and banned over 27,000 accounts over the weekend through a series of upgraded detection systems. The team is… pic.twitter.com/PPMXbsuEH7

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) April 8, 2024

The bot mode will allow up to 20 different players to queue up in its own matchmaking mode. Since the mode only allows for quad teams, players can either queue up as a full group, or choose to queue through fill-squad.

While the mod will likely help players quite a bit in learning how to play and figuring out the map, the Bootcamp mode won’t allow players to progress through Call of Duty‘s various daily and weekly challenges, or other in-game quests.

Season 3 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone is slated for release on April 3. Since Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile was also recently released on iOS and Android, the third season will also be the first one for mobile players.

The season will also bring with it other content, including new weapons, maps, and rewards to earn throughout its various game modes.