The subsequent Call of Duty game can have a single-player marketing campaign

Information surrounding this 12 months’s upcoming Call of Duty game has come to mild. During final night time’s controversial earnings name, Activision president Rob Kostich confirmed, amongst different issues, that this 12 months’s title can have a marketing campaign.

According to CharlieIntel, Kostich mentioned that 2019’s iteration on the sequence, which is being developed by Infinity Ward, can have an “entirely new campaign, a huge and expansive multiplayer world, and some fun co-op gameplay.”

Kostich went on to handle the standard of Infinity Ward’s subsequent title. The studio’s earlier Call of Duty outing, Infinite Warfare, didn’t carry out notably properly, prompting its former inventive strategist to counsel that there’ll never be a sequel to the space-based FPS. By distinction, Kostich mentioned that the brand new game “is going to resonate very powerfully with our community. It is an amazing game.” That sentiment was adopted up by different Activision executives, together with CEO Bobby Kotick, who mentioned that “I haven’t seen this much enthusiasm that I can remember almost ever,” and the corporate’s CFO Dennis Durkin, who mentioned “the team that’s building this game for us in Activision is building what they believe [is] the best Call of Duty we’ve ever built.”

While the most recent Call of Duty game, Black Ops 4, was broadly thought of successful, followers have been initially sceptical concerning the resolution to not embody a devoted single-player expertise. Given that reception, I’m not notably shocked that the sequence’ subsequent outing will function a narrative marketing campaign.

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Little extra is thought concerning the new game, after all. Kotick confirmed that the brand new game will launch within the autumn, however that’s par for the course for Call of Duty games. We don’t have a reputation but, and I think about we received’t be taught the setting of the title for some time.

Last night time’s earnings name has been met with vital backlash by the broader gaming neighborhood, as the corporate introduced that despite posting record profits in 2018, it would be laying off approximately 8% of its workforce. Across Activision, Blizzard, King, and a handful of different studios, round 800 persons are thought to have misplaced their jobs yesterday.