Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

In an Xbox feature by Entertainment Weekly, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma talks about Xbox extending beyond games and transcending into TV and movies, “You won’t see us try to become the biggest linear provider in the world or anything like that, but I think great games are culture, and culture is entertainment. If you think about it, we’ve got the number two show of all time on Amazon [Fallout], Minecraft was top 5 in 2025, Call of Duty is bigger than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So it all measures. [There’s] more appetite to work with us on titles than ever before.” It’s hard to quantify everything

Cecot – We felt like with the DMZ beta, we got to try a bunch of stuff in live, which was really, really good. For learnings… there’s a lot of learnings. We added the Active Duty slots post-launch, because we didn’t have persistent inventory in DMZ, as a way for us to keep persistence on characters so you keep runs going. And then we added Exfil Streaks that gave you different Perks or Traits. And that was a feature that came out of necessity; we didn’t have a persistent inventory at the time. But in the end, it made us unique to a lot of extraction shooters where you had these different chara

Your browser does not support the video tag. The previous Modern Warfare was so terrible because it began life as a major expansion until Activision brass demanded it needed to be turned into an annual entry — something it was never meant to be. As a consequence, large parts of the single-player campaign took place on the battle royale map while other missions severely underwhelmed and fumbled major plot developments fans were excited to watch play out. Chief among them was the death of John "Soap" MacTavish, who in the original trilogy was mourned by the entirety of Task Force 141 after his p

If the ad is real, there's an argument to be made that this is Xbox being the good guys. Hide a message like this away in the small print, and the company gets accused of trying to trick casual CoD fans into subscribing, or remaining subscribed, to Game Pass, unaware that Modern Warfare 4 won't be added to the service until a year after its release. I would be yelling that take right about now if I hadn't witnessed years of Xbox's unclear messaging surrounding Game Pass. Even at a higher price, Game Pass is an incredible deal. It is the Netflix of video games, and it should be far more success