The 11 biggest video game news stories of 2025 – from Switch 2 to GTA 6

GameCentral takes a look at the biggest video game news stories of 2025 and what impact they'll have on the new year to come.
Variety

Xbox Game Studios Boss on Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Call of Duty’ Movie, Launching ‘South of Midnight’ for PS5 and Switch 2, and Big Plans for Dev Direct in January (EXCLUSIVE)

Microsoft’s Xbox is heading into The Game Awards Thursday with 10 nominations and major promotional plans for the second season of its “Fallout” TV series on Amazon. The company also had some big news ...
IGN

Call of Duty Will No Longer Do Back-to-back Releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops Games

Call of Duty will no longer release multiple Black Ops or Modern Warfare games back-to-back, after two Modern Warfare releases in 2022 and 2023, and two Black Ops releases in 2024 and 2025, ...
Polygon

Battlefield 6 sales are so good, it might actually pose a real threat to Call of Duty

A couple of months ago, reports claimed that Activision leadership wasn't particularly bothered about the hype surrounding Battlefield 6. Even in its off years, the Call of Duty franchise has seemed ...
Android

Call of Duty: Mobile is getting a DMZ mode, and it's exactly what the game needs

Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Mobile’s DMZ mode, an extraction-based shooter mode that riffs off the version released in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. While it feels a bit ...
Rolling Stone

‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ Games, Ranked From Worst to Best

The late 2000s were a period where shooters blossomed, largely in part to the ongoing popularity of Halo, newcomers like Gears of War, and the rise of Activision’s cultural juggernaut, Call of Duty.
Engadget

You can't pause your game in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's always-online campaign

While most of the enormous Call of Duty audience buys each annual entry without hesitation for its multiplayer offering, the single-player campaign is also a big part of the experience. CoD campaigns ...
The Escapist

Every Call of Duty campaign ranked: From Black Ops to Modern Warfare

Who doesn’t love a ranked list? So, ready the loadout. With the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 release date here, we’re going to run through all of the Call of Duty campaigns, ranking them from least ...
GamesRadar+

Is Black Ops 7 on Game Pass?

Is Black Ops 7 on Game Pass is a reasonable question to ask, and the good news is that yes, it is included, which isn't particularly surprising given the long collaborative history between Xbox and ...
PC Gamer

Black Ops 7 has problems, but Call of Duty recognizes where the wind is blowing: The triumphant return of loose SBMM and persistent lobbies in the FPS

Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I'll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to ...
GamesRadar+

Can you name the Call of Duty game from the head on the box alone, in this impossibly hard quiz?

Think you can name every Call of Duty game just from the soldier on the box? There are currently 21 main games in the franchise, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on the way, and they all share one thing ...