Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Confirmed at Xbox Games Showcase 2025

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was announced astatine Xbox Games Showcase 2025 with a cinematic trailer.

Developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the archetypal ever consecutive merchandise wrong the Black Ops sub-series. Matt Cox, General Manager of Call of Duty, insisted that “as a team, our imaginativeness from the commencement was to make a back-to-back bid acquisition for our players that embraced the uniqueness of the Black Ops sub-franchise.”

No merchandise model was announced, but Black Ops 7 is confirmed to merchandise aboriginal successful 2025. Here's the authoritative blurb:

Wielding cutting-edge technology, David Mason and his squad indispensable combat backmost against a manipulative force who weaponizes fearfulness supra each else.

Black Ops 7 is acceptable successful 2035, much than 40 years aft the events of Black Ops 6, astatine a clip erstwhile the satellite is connected the brink of chaos pursuing the events of Black Ops 2 and past year’s Black Ops 6. Co-op run returns for Black Ops 7 aft 6 skipped it (you tin inactive play the run solo). Expect to usage near-future weaponry successful Multiplayer, with brand-new maps. Meanwhile, there’s the adjacent section of Round-Based Zombies successful the bosom of the Dark Aether.

According to Variety, Black Ops 7 volition prima Milo Ventimiglia, Kiernan Shipka, and Michael Rooker. Ventimiglia volition play David Mason, Shipka plays a caller quality called Emma Kagen, and Rooker reprises his Black Ops 2 relation of Mike Harper.

By announcing Black Ops 7 to travel Black Ops 6 conscionable a twelvemonth later, immoderate fans volition see the crippled thing of a stop-gap, arsenic 2023’s Modern Warfare 3 was considered by immoderate wrong the assemblage fixed it followed 2022’s Modern Warfare 2 conscionable a twelvemonth later.

But Cox insisted Black Ops 7 “delivers the afloat Call of Duty bundle for our players, and we can't hold to amusement the assemblage much of what the workplace teams person been moving connected erstwhile we uncover aboriginal this summer.”

Tyler Bahl, Head of Activision Publishing Marketing, added: “The squad is looking to physique connected the unthinkable assemblage enthusiasm and excitement we’ve seen wrong the Black Ops universe. This is the archetypal clip we’re staying wrong the Black Ops bid with back-to-back releases, truthful we’re excited to springiness players a spot much clip to bask each the unrecorded seasons and supply players much of what they privation crossed Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone earlier we crook the leafage to Black Ops 7.

“Our authoritative teaser sets the code for players to clasp the madness that’s incoming with Black Ops 7’s story.

“Delivering consecutive Black Ops games besides allows our teams the tremendous accidental to pat not lone into our ain creativity but besides clasp the displacement from a ’90s mounting to the caller 2035 aboriginal mounting wrong our marketing."

Also confirmed is that Activision is sticking with last-gen consoles for Black Ops 7, which is owed retired crossed Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via “Xbox PC,” Battle.net, and Steam. As you’d expect, you tin play day-one connected Game Pass Ultimate oregon PC Game Pass. There was nary notation of Nintendo Switch 2 successful the announcement.

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine Xbox Games Showcase June 2025.

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