- Call of Duty won't hit Xbox Game Pass at launch going forwards, as Microsoft's subscription service gets a price cut - 21 April 2026
Microsoft have announced some changes to Xbox Game Pass. As of today, its Ultimate and PC Game Pass tiers are having their prices slashed, but neither will get Call of Duty games at launch going forwards. Instead, new instalments in the shooter series will hit Game Pass about a year after release, with already released CoDs remaining available to play as normal. Read more
- It’s official: Battlefield 6 is 2025's best-selling game, but Black Ops 7 still managed to be November’s top-seller - 18 December 2025
Circan’s November 2025 video game sales report has easily been one of the most anticipated. For one, November is always one of the most lucrative for the games industry, but this year in particular has seen several major hits - including new entries in two rival series. Read more
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 multiplayer review - 25 November 2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 's multiplayer is better than its awful, terrible, abominable, ghastly, hideous, not very good campaign. But 'better' in this case does not necessarily mean 'good'. This year's anxious flurry of maps, modes and zombies achieves the base requirement for a satisfactory shooting experience, and there are a couple of ideas that are interesting if inconsistently successful. But the overall quality is wildly incoherent, while the whole package is overshadowed by the spectre of generative AI. The biggest change to this year's multiplayer is also the least interesting to discuss, its approach to skill-based matchmaking. Call of Duty's habit of matching you with players allegedly on your ability level has come under fire in recent years for flattening the experience. So this year, Treyarch offers you a choice, letting you play with 'standard' SBMM, or in a pool where SB…
- Battlefield 6 kicks off its first free trial post the Black Ops 7 launch to twist that knife - 25 November 2025
Even if you don’t care about the rivalries between the top multiplayer first-person shooters series, it’s hard to ignore how much EA wanted to stick it to Call of Duty this year with Battlefield 6. Read more
- Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 18 Nov — 25 November 2025 - 25 November 2025
* ARC Raiders ; * Steam Deck ; * Battlefield™ 6 ; * Risk of Rain 2 ; * Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 26 ; * Dispatch ; * Hearts of Iron IV ; * Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 ; * Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
- Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 11 Nov — 18 November 2025 - 18 November 2025
* ARC Raiders ; * Anno 117: Pax Romana ; * Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 ; * Battlefield™ 6 ; * Steam Deck ; * Dispatch ; * Escape from Tarkov ; * INAZUMA ELEVEN: Victory Road ; * Assetto Corsa Rally ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 26 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (PC) Review - 13 November 2025
The “ Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 | Story So Far” trailer ends with the line “In the world of Black Ops , the past never dies.” In retrospect, it reads like a joke—and a little like a threat. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is what happens when, instead of letting a storyline die, you embalm it with Mountain Dew and force its caffeinated corpse to reminisce with you. Sure, it’s an interesting way to revisit an old friend, but in between moments of nostalgic fun, it’s hard to ignore that you should probably open a window. Let’s be honest, most people buy Call of Duty for either the multiplayer or Zombies, and while both offerings are as good in Black Ops 7 as they were in Black Ops 6 (BO6) , they’re not all that different. The experience is similar enough to give you the cynical inkling that you’ve paid full price for a reset to your camo grind and to unlock a near-future reskin. Part of this is…
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's launch day patch notes are basically gun speed dating, and its endgame is a big fight in map soup - 13 November 2025
Oh shit, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 comes out tomorrow, November 14th. As you'd expect, Activision have been busy yelling about it amid the deafening din of about 10,000 other games whizzing past per minute. There are some launch day patch notes and a rundown of what the mode you unlock if you beat the single-player bit involves. Let's take a gander. Read more
- CORSAIR Joins Forces With Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 For Exclusive Gaming Gear - 11 November 2025
A leading peripheral producer for gaming, CORSAIR, has announced a new partnership with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, featuring an exclusive lineup of Black Ops 7 -themed products. CORSAIR has announced another collaboration with exclusive licensed gaming gear, and this one is for the FPS enthusiast. Today, the peripheral developer has announced a team-up with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to deliver high-performance gear and technology for gamers, content creators, and PC enthusiasts across its entire suite of brands. This includes SCUF Gaming, Elgato, and ORIGIN PC, and the team-up seeks to deliver peak performance and style for Call of Duty players everywhere. This ongoing partnership spans multiple product categories, from controllers and gaming peripherals to custom PCs, keyboards, streaming gear, and accessories, bringing together two of the world’s best-known gaming brands. As part of t…
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's beta chat turning Arc Raiders into *** ******* was a text filter goof, Activision say - 7 October 2025
****, we didn't mean for that to happen. This has been the response from Call of Duty Black Ops 7 developers Activision to folks spotting that you couldn't type the name of fellow shooter Arc Raiders into the chat of the game's beta without it being censored. Yep, you could reportedly get away with Arc or Raiders, but stick the two together, and it was off to the starred-out naughty corner. Naturally, folks wondered why this was a thing, especially since you could chat about more obvious Black Ops 7 competitor Battlefield 6 to your heart's content without facing any star-based repercussions. Read more
- Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 30 Sep — 7 October 2025 - 7 October 2025
* Battlefield™ 6 ; * Steam Deck ; * Digimon Story Time Stranger ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 26 ; * Megabonk ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 ; * Sons Of The Forest ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s Beta Feels Fast, Flashy, and a Little Too Familiar - 6 October 2025
Well, folks, it’s that time of year again. The nights are getting colder, the leaves are falling, and the plague of pumpkin spice spreads unchecked across the land. To most, these are simple signs of fall, but to gamers, they’re yearly omens that herald the arrival of a new Call of Duty . This year’s entry, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 , launches November 7th. In the convoluted timeline of the sub-series, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be a direct sequel to 2012’s near-future classic, Black Ops 2 , not last year’s 90s-themed Black Ops 6 . Last week, players who preordered Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 were granted access to a closed beta, offering an early look at how the near-future shooter is shaping up. After spending most of the weekend jumping and sliding through its new maps, I’ve got some thoughts. In short, if you liked last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 , you’re going to enjoy Blac…
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Will Launch With New Game Modes and Multiplayer Adjustments - 1 October 2025
The Call of Duty : NEXT Showcase revealed new details surrounding Black Ops 7 , including a new game mode for multiplayer and changes to Zombies and PvP. To set the global stage for the November 14 launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 , Treyarch deployed the Call of Duty : NEXT event, which revealed a torrent of new information regarding the next chapter of the Black Ops series. The NEXT event gave creators and developers a chance to play the new game and discuss the major features coming to Black Ops 7 Multiplayer and Zombies. What’s interesting is, while detailing the changes, Treyarch brushed upon some of the changes it’s bringing to multiplayer games, zombie games, and the changes they’re aiming for when the title launches. First and foremost, players got their first look at the new Overload game mode coming to the Beta and available at launch. Overload pits two teams against each ot…
- For the first time ever, a Call of Duty beta will include Zombies - as Survival has been confirmed for the Black Ops 7 beta - 25 September 2025
Now that we’ve been acquainted with pretty much everything in multiplayer in the upcoming Black Ops 7 , it’s naturally time for Zombies, the co-op, undead-clearing mode that’s been a staple of the series for years. Read more
- Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty - 24 September 2025
Steam's latest client beta has given you another way to quickly check whether you've got secure boot enabled before you hop into some FPS sing about. Enabling the setting's become mandatory for the likes of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 , as the possibly futile war on cheating continues to rage like, er, well, you know. It's a controversial way of going about trying to limit the amout of fraudulent 360 no-scopes , as it involves publishers mandating an aspect of how players' hardware's used, if a pretty easy one to check with a trip to your BIOS if you know what you're doing. Not everyone's used to delving into those settings though, which is why it's nice Valve have made this useful addition to their game playing place. Read more
- Black Ops 7 blows the doors wide open on its multiplayer mode ahead of Call of Duty: Next - 23 September 2025
Black Ops 7 is a little far off still, but if you thought next week’s big Call of Duty: Next multiplayer reveal event was going to be where most remaining information would be revealed, you’d actually be a little off base this time. Read more
- Black Ops 7 u-turns on Black Ops 6 Carry Forward just days after announcing it because of the massive backlash - 27 August 2025
Activision has made a major announcement regarding a particular feature in this year’s Call of Duty, Black Ops 7 . The game, which had its full reveal at gamescom just one week ago , will no longer support Carry Forward. Read more
- Black Ops 7 will let you level up your weapons in the campaign, and bring your Black Ops 6 weapons and operators into multiplayer - 20 August 2025
The big Black Ops 7 media blowout has officially begun, kicking off, of course with last night’s gamescom Opening Night Live reveal . The trailer coincided with the release of plenty of new information covering many aspects of the game, with the promise of more to come. Read more
- Black Ops 7 brings back wallrunning, and introduces an unusual endgame mode to the campaign - 20 August 2025
We’ve been expecting today’s reveal, of course, ever since Activision confirmed back in July that Black Ops 7 would be part of Opening Night Live’s line-up this year. This is technically the game’s second “reveal”, because its first outing was at the very end of the Xbox Showcase back in June . Read more
- Gamescom ONL 2025 Round-Up – All The Exciting Announcements Here! - 19 August 2025
To kick things off, gamescom ONL 2025 brings a showcase full of exciting announcements and premieres, and it can be found right here. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) gaming events of the year is kicking things off with the gamescom ONL 2025. As fast as Summer Game Fest 2025 entered and exited, gamescom 2025 is here , and for the entire week, reveals and showcases will dominate the internet, giving players a good look at what’s to come for the next year in gaming and beyond. Outside of the already exciting announcements of Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct , Helldivers 2 + Halo ODST warbond landing on August 26, and Hollow Knight: Silksong finally releasing information on August 21, Gamescom ONL 2025 has brought the goods in the form of many trailers to get everyone hyped for the remainder of 2025, and everything that was announced can be seen below. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 To k…
