Where some games in the Black Ops subseries have been more standalone than their Modern Warfare brethren, 2025’s planned Call of Duty will reportedly be a follow-up to 2012’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, with players taking control of returning protagonist David Mason.

To help you get ready, here’s all you need to know about the Black Ops 6 release schedule, file size, preload details, and preorder options.

AI-based voice moderation systems made their Call of Duty debut in 2023 with Modern Warfare 3. Activision has contracted the aptly named ToxMod software from Modulate to do the job. ToxMod can cover up to 18 languages and tries to track the "language of love" Call of Duty players have been speaking for a little too long.

People love to complain about how long Call of Duty campaigns are even though most people never finish them and just play the multiplayer deathmatch meat grinder instead. Even so, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 promises a set of story-based missions that should run longer than both Cold War and Modern Warfare III,

Raven Software associate creative director Jon Zuk has teased 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 6' will have the most varied campaign the series has ever seen, with every level being treated as "its own mini blockbuster".

Call of Duty’s greatest campaigns have offered one thing over all else: variety. Whether it’s the original Modern Warfare’s memorable behind-enemy-lines sniping of All Ghillied Up or Cold War’s KGB infiltration and hallucinogenic episodes,