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Metro
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Call Of Duty 2027 will launch new franchise with martial arts theme says leaker
Activision is planning to launch a new sub-franchise of Call Of Duty in 2027 according to a prominent insider, the first in five years. There are very few surprises when it comes to Call Of Duty these days, both in its gameplay and the fact each annual instalment is usually leaked years in advance. As announced last month, this year's entry is another Black Ops sequel, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7, from developer Treyarch. While nothing official has been said about the 2026 game, it's rumoured to be a sequel to 2023's Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, centred around Korea and made by Infinity Ward. While some hoped the following entry in 2027 would be a sequel to Sledgehammer's futuristic Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, it seems the studio might be cooking up an entirely new sub-franchise. According to reliable Call Of Duty leaker TheGhostOfHope, the 2027 game will be 'set in a completely new sub-franchise' in the 'modern era'. While there aren't many details on what will separate it from Modern Warfare, movement is planned to be a 'big focus', which will include a lot of martial arts. 'There may be a focus on martial arts within the gameplay with 'karate kicks' and 'karate chops' as examples,' they wrote on X. It's unclear if this will still be a relatively minor element or some kind of elaborate Sifu-esque overhaul, but it's certainly a bizarre addition if true. Especially given how difficult it is to create meaningful melee combat in a first person perspective. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. EXCLUSIVE: COD2027 by Sledgehammer Games will NOT be Advanced Warfare 2 and will instead be set in a completely new during the Modern Jetpacks but movement is planned to be a big is currently not planned for the High is… — Hope (@TheGhostOfHope) July 17, 2025 The leaker claims the title, developed by Sledgehammer Games, will not feature jetpacks or Zombies mode. However, the parkour-themed mode Get High, which debuted in the studio's last Call Of Duty game Modern Warfare 3, is 'planned' to return. More Trending Not featuring Zombies is a major shift for the series, which has relied on it for its co-op mode for many years now. Although Zombies has begun to seem increasingly in need of an overhaul in recent sequels, so this may be an implicit acceptance of that. While we likely won't get confirmation of these details until around this time in 2027, Call Of Duty hasn't tried to launch a new sub-franchise since 2021's Call Of Duty: Vanguard, a Second World War shooter which fell below Activision's sales expectations. Whether the new game lands with the general Call Of Duty masses or not, the series is in dire need of some kind of refresh – especially as we've been stuck in a Black Ops and Modern Warfare rotation for the past four years. The next instalment, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7, was officially announced during last month's Xbox games showcase, with a full reveal set to take place at Gamescom in August. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
2K Games Fires Studio Head Michael Condrey After Disappointing Project Ethos Reveal
2K Games has fired 31st Union president Michael Condrey after the studio's long-awaited online multiplayer game Project Ethos was revealed last fall to little fanfare or apparent player interest, according to two sources familiar with the studio. The project's fate is now unclear, although 2K, which is publishing Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country later this year, says it remains 'very committed' to both Project Ethos and the studio behind it. Condrey, who previously co-founded Sledgehammer Games, was removed as studio head at 31st Union earlier this week on February 3, according to two sources, but 2K says he will continue advising the project. The leadership change comes as parent company Take-Two prepares to announce its quarterly earnings on February 6. The company, which is planning to release Grand Theft Auto 6 later this year, has a history of announcing project cancellations as write-downs in its quarterly results. 'We are grateful to Michael Condrey for the dedication, passion and work ethic it took to build an incredible team and shape the vision of 31st Union,' a 2K spokesperson for 2K told Kotaku in an email. 'Michael will be transitioning his role in the short term to focus on advising on the future of Project ETHOS. We remain very committed to the forward path for Project ETHOS and the people and culture of the 31st Union studio.' 31st Union had been working on Project Ethos for several years as part of what Kotaku understands to have been a challenging and rocky development cycle under Condrey's leadership. The studio head joined after leaving Sledgehammer Games, the Call of Duty studio he co-founded with fellow Dead Space developer Glen Schofield, in 2018. When the game was finally revealed last fall as a colorful extraction shooter that mixed a Fortnite aesthetic with hero-shooter-style gameplay, the reaction was disappointingly muted for a game that had been in production by a team of hundreds of developers across multiple studios (31st Union has a sister studio in Valencia, Spain). GameSpot's preview said the shooter had potential but suffered from an 'identity crisis.' Project Ethos' announcement and closed beta tests also came shortly after the high-profile collapse of Concord, Sony's expensive first-party sci-fi hero shooter that was retroactively unreleased with full refunds to players less than two weeks after coming out. While some live-service projects have still found success, like the Overwatch-inspired Marvel Rivals, which is still one of the most played games across console and PC months after releasing, many more have struggled to gain any traction in the current hyper-competitive environment. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
