We have here a rumour regarding Sledgehammer’s upcoming Call of Duty game that you should all take with a massive pinch of salt, but it’s worth taking note of. According to a tip sent to OnlySP back in December, which they have only now decided to talk about, Sledgehammer’s CoD title this year will be a fourth installment in the Modern Warfare series.

According to this tip, the game will take place in 2018, set after Modern Warfare 3, and will feature Captain Price and Nikolai as its two main characters, taking them back to the SAS. The game will be set across Europe and Asia, the SAS will have a major role in the game’s campaign, and Nikolai will probably also be a playable character.

However, what the tipster says next is where people will get a little (read: very) skeptical. According to the tip, Modern Warfare 4 will feature the Shadow Company as its main antagonists- the company led by General Shepherd in MW2. What’s the confusing part, though, is that Commander Shepherd, according to this tipster, is still alive. He gets stabbed through the eye at the end of MW2, but according to this tip, Shepherd has survived, and the main objective of the SAS in the game will not be to fight in another World War, but to hunt down General Shepherd.

According to the tip, there will also be stealth mission taking place in Amsterdam and Shanghai, but other than this, there are no other details on these missions to go on.

Again, while it seems likely that the game Sledgehammer are working on is Modern Warfare 4, it seems a little unlikely that the game’s story will play out like the tipster here says it will, so again, take this with a pinch of salt. Earlier it was confirmed that Sledgehammer games will be giving next gen consoles full priority.

Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated.

“I think it’s fair to say that Call of Duty at or near the top of its annual sales potential has arrived and we are likely to see strong sales at that level, with effect from the competition in the future,” Playfront reported.

“Some people may wait for the console launch, and some are attracted to Battlefield, so it is very likely that we will experience a modest decline in sales. This is not the fault of Activision, but the testament of a phenomenal success and the available power of the Call of Duty brand. ”

He believes some people will wait for the new consoles to play Call of Duty and there may be a loss of 5 to 10% of the existing user base. The game was confirmed earlier by Captain Price’s voice actor.

Tell us what you think in the comments section below. Stay tuned for more news and updates.

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 having been one of the least successful Call of Duty titles in recent years- thought still very successful individually- some would have thought that Activision and Infinity Ward will be dropping the Modern Warfare brand name, and while some suspected that 2013’s CoD title might be a new Modern Warfare game, this was never really concrete.

Well, it looks like that might just be true. Bill Murray, the voice actor of Captain Price in the Modern Warfare games let slip to Jason Andrews of ThisIsXbox on a flight from Bodrum to London that he is working on a new Modern Warfare title.

“Yeah, on Monday I am off to meet Infinity Ward about the next game, Modern Warfare 4,” said Murray. “I’m doing work on the sequel to Modern Warfare 3, it carries straight on and I only ever appear in the Modern Warfare games…”

The journalist also posted a picture of himself with Murray (through the link above).

Now, this still isn’t confirmed officially (obviously), and it’s extremely possible that it’s not exactly a Modern Warfare game, but an entirely new CoD title featuring Captain Price as a character, like Call of Duty 1 and 2 did before the Modern Warfare games. But this still is pretty concrete evidence that MW4 might just be a real thing.

With the way the story ended in Modern Warfare 3, it seemed all pretty conclusive, and closure was definitely provided, so it’ll be interesting to see how Infinity Ward continue the story in Modern Warfare 4 satisfactorily.

This year’s CoD title, Black Ops 2 by Treyarch, will be releasing mid-November for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and a few days later for the Wii U when it launches.