Here's the latest news I found this morning;


The next Call of Duty game is apparently returning to the Cold War-era intrigue of 2010's Call of Duty: Black Ops. GameBlog reports that the French site of retail giant Amazon posted (and then pulled) a product page for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Did Black Ops 2's cover just get blown?
Activision had already said it would have another installment in the Call of Duty series on shelves this year, but the publisher has not confirmed its era or setting. Previous Call of Duty games have thrown players into World War II, the Cold War, and current-day antiterrorism efforts around the world.

While Activision didn't confirm the existence of Black Ops 2 directly, GameBlog followed up its story with a report that Activision France contacted the site to demand the news be pulled. GameBlog said it refused to do so, and Activision subsequently disinvited the site from a preview event for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and canceled advertising campaigns it had planned to run on the site.

The original Black Ops set a bevy of sales records, becoming the best-selling game of all time on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in the US and Europe and racking up $1 billion in revenues in less than two months on sale. Last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a ways to go to match Black Ops' overall sales, but it came out of the gates considerably more quickly, hitting the $1 billion mark in just 16 days.

As of press time, an Activision representative had not responded to GameSpot's request for comment. For more on Call of Duty: Black Ops, check out GameSpot's review.

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Lets just hope it has dedicated servers. Hopefully of the W@W quality.

GOA.Luke*BK*

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Hope it blows the doos off BC3..sure wish they would go back to WWII....this modern crap is for the birds...not set up right....................infantry no  anti-weapons, who ever heard gggggggggggg is it so stupid!

RECON should be sniper 10 rds. w/9mm, 2 clays...to start..........

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Not a chance in it being better than BF3 until Activision pulls there heads out and do a real update to the game. Everything since CoD4 could have just been DLC and content updates with minor graphics updates.

They have definately lost my business for good. I will download it to play the single player campaign at most, but Activision will not see another dollar from me.

As far as recon goes, I actually like having the motion sensor over the claymores. There is an anti-? weapon for everything in the game except bullets. Armor and aircraft now last only a fraction of the amount of time they did in BF1942 and BF2.

I do wish they would have specialized the kits more like they were for BF2 though.

For you guys that have a large CoD following, I hope the game does well. I will see you guys in BF3 and whatever the next BF game happens to be (unless it is another CoD copy).

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