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The biggest games industry news stories of 2025 | Year in Review

AI outrage, a delay to GTA 6, takeover deals for EA and Warner Bros., US tariffs, the Steam Machine, Switch 2… there's a lot ...

DualShockers’ 2025 Game of the Year Awards: 10 Best Indie Games

There was one clear winner for DualShockers’ best indie game of 2025, and that title goes to Hades 2. This action RPG blew ...

The ten worst games of 2025, according to Metacritic

Metacritic ranks its 10 worst games based on the lowest scores. The site explains that it excludes any titles with fewer than 4 reviews, and that ...
TechRaptor

November US Sales Data Shows Call of Duty Still Riding High

Circana has released its sales data for November 2025, and Call of Duty may be down, but it's certainly not out.

Call of Duty 2027 is reportedly "a new sub-franchise" that ditches Zombies and potentially brings back a classic system

Allegedly set in the 1990s and 2000s, CoD 2027 will reportedly not be tied to any existing sub-series like Modern Warfare or ...
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 ...
GamesIndustry

Activision to change release strategy for Call of Duty, as new data suggests player count has halved in 12 months

Activision has announced it will no longer ship back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, as new data shared with GamesIndustry.biz indicates significant underperformance by the ...
Shacknews

Call of Duty will no longer release Black Ops or Modern Warfare games back-to-back

Activision has released a statement acknowledging the shortcomings of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. As the company looks to the future of the franchise, the publisher is making a change in their ...
VideoGamer

Best Call of Duty games – A grand history of the prolific military shooter

Branching out from World War II, we’ve entered all manner of conflicts across the Call of Duty series. From the theatres of the Cold War through to the technological conflicts of 2065, each iteration ...
Polygon

Call of Duty's developers know they messed up, but their solution isn't the right one

Activision has announced a huge change for the Call of Duty series: we'll no longer be seeing consecutive releases in either the Modern Warfare or Black Ops subseries. What does Battlefield offer that ...
Thurrott

Call of Duty Will Stop Doing Back-to-Back Releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops Games

It’s been almost a month since Activision released Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which came right after the Black Ops 6 episode from 2024. This was the second time that Activision had back-to-back ...
TweakTown

Activision promises more original Call of Duty games outside of Black Ops and Modern Warfare

TL;DR: Activision plans to revitalize the Call of Duty franchise by focusing on unique, original annual releases instead of alternating between Black Ops and Modern Warfare. The company aims to drive ...