New Call of Duty game gets a single player campaign

Activision has announced through new director Rob Kostich that the latest title in the Call of Duty series, due out this year, will feature a campaign. He said this in the context of the presentation of the quarterly figures.

During an oral commentary on the presented quarterly results, Rob Kostich said the new Call of Duty title features a “completely new campaign.” In addition, he reports that the game will also have a large, expanded multiplayer world and a certain amount of co-op gameplay. The game will be released in the fall of this year.

Kostich gave no further details about the upcoming Call of Duty title; more may be announced at an Activision-hosted event taking place on February 19. Activision Blizzard’s CFO Dennis Durkin said the new title is “a major step forward in the franchise” and that the game is “rooted in some of the franchise’s key historical periods.”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 came out last October without the traditional campaign mode. The title did have a battle royale mode called Blackout from release, which proved quite popular. Whether the new Call of Duty title will once again include a battle royale mode is unknown; none of the top men said anything about that. The new game in the Call of Duty series is being made by Infinity Ward, the studio also responsible for the original Call of Duty and Modern Warfare titles, among others.

Activision Blizzard also published the figures for the past quarter and the whole of 2018. Sales rose and profits in particular rose sharply. In 2017, the company made a profit of $273 million, compared to $1.8 billion in 2018. Nevertheless, the joint game company is cutting costs by sending some 800 employees home. Activision Blizzard states that this is necessary so that it can invest in more developers for the main titles, namely: Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Overwatch, Warcraft, Hearthsthone and Diablo.