Overview
- Treyarch’s Gamescom reveal confirms a four‑player co‑op campaign, a replayable open‑world Endgame finale in Avalon, evolved movement with wallrunning, and the largest round‑based Zombies map.
- Multiplayer launches with 16 core maps plus two 20v20 Skirmish battlegrounds, returning favorites like Raid, Express, and Hijacked, and the comeback of Dead Ops Arcade.
- Activision’s Carry Forward will bring Black Ops 6 cosmetics and tokens into Black Ops 7, with developers saying they are monitoring feedback about outlandish skins and plan to calibrate offerings.
- Online reaction to the BO7 trailer skews negative, with a high dislike ratio and top comments praising Battlefield 6, while Treyarch’s Miles Leslie calls BF6 “a fun game” and urges positive competition.
- Battlefield Studios outlines post‑beta tuning on weapons, movement penalties, map exploits, and mode player counts; BF6 arrives October 10, BO7 holds a multiplayer beta October 2–8 after Call of Duty: Next on September 30, and launches day one on Game Pass.