"Call of Duty: Black Ops 6" will be presented on June 9
Previously only the date was known, but now the series and the studio are known. There are also clues about the historical period of the next CoD shooter.
The announcement of the Black Ops 6 event with a new logo for the Special Forces.
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Activision has announced the title of the next game in the "Call of Duty" series with a video published on YouTube and a dedicated website. As was to be expected after the last two years with titles from the "Modern Warfare" subseries, a title from the "Black Ops" series is now following, namely part six. The last Black Ops from the studio was released as 'Black Ops: Cold War' in 2020. It was developed by the Treyarch studio, which is also working on the new part.
As previously reported, "Black Ops 6" will be presented in two weeks, on June 9, 2024, as part of the Xbox Game Showcase event. After years of negotiations with antitrust authorities, Microsoft finally took over Activision/Blizzard in October 2023. The new Call of Duty is considered one of Activision's first major releases under Microsoft's leadership and is set to be available via the Game Pass subscription service at market launch in fall 2024 and not just as a purchased title.
Ominous activists in the teaser video
As is usual for the franchise, the new Black Ops also has its own teaser website. In addition to the YouTube video, other content with very nebulous allusions to the content of the title can be seen there in the form of a tube TV to zap through. Under the slogan "The Truth Lies", a group of activists is defacing monuments all over the world. What the protest is about and what "truth" is meant remains unclear.
Some observers in the games' industry interpret the design and the time reference of the objects shown as an allusion to the Second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 in Iraq and Kuwait. This setting would be a suitable historical framework for the special operations shown in the Black Ops series. And even if this interpretation is not correct, the topic of "The Truth Lies" is likely to provide a lot to talk about in the run-up to the US elections on November 5. According to as yet unconfirmed information, the new "Call of Duty" will be released shortly beforehand in October.
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