Infinity Ward finally revealed its first official logo Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Continuing with the odd naming convention of previous releases, Infinity Ward confirmed that it’s working on a sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare reboot (not a remake of 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2).
We have the logo – which you can see below – but beyond that, we don’t have any valuable inf ormation about the game, what modes it will include, what it will look like, or how it will play.
Ahead of the official reveal, we at Activision Blizzard noted that the Modern Warfare reboot sequel is “the most advanced experience in the franchise’s history,” explaining that the game’s release (assumed around holiday 2022) will be combined with the Warzone “experience” It is being built “from the ground up with quality games”, including “breakthrough innovations”. So far so good and blurry.
The game could also mark the end of the annual Call of Duty launch — something we’ve seen many times since 2005. Some “senior employees” at Activision are considering changing the release cadence of the Call of Duty series, and are considering removal from the game’s current setup as a franchise of the year. This will give studios associated with the series — Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch, and Raven — some breathing room and work on longer development cycles.
Earlier, Activision Blizzard announced that its shareholders had approved Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of the company.
Perhaps a new, complex CoD game could turn the publisher’s fortunes around to some extent; we recently heard that Blizzard’s Q1 financial results were down year over year, “primarily reflecting the product cycle time of the Warcraft franchise.” Maybe forever popular The release of the CoD could save face on Activision’s side, especially since public discrimination and harassment lawsuits against the company are still ongoing.
