Activision Publishing Inc. have today outlined details on the future of their Call of Duty first-person-shooter video game franchise. Launched in 2003, the series eventually became an annual mainstay in the Autumn of Gaming roster, with its most recent instalment (Call of Duty: Ghosts) developed by Infinity Ward and released in November 2013.
If ever fans needed confirmation that COD would live on beyond 2013, then Activision has given them the news they've awaited loud and clear this evening. Sledgehammer Games are confirmed to develop this year's outing, no doubt set to launch in retailers in November as has been the traditional release window for the series since Call of Duty: World at War's début in 2008. The developers had the following to say on their upcoming project: "The next Call of Duty represents a new era for this amazing franchise, and we look forward to sharing what we have been working on."
Of more relevance for the foreseeable future, however, is the revelation that COD will operate on a three-developer yearly cycle from 2014 onwards, with Treyarch likely continuing their Black Ops narrative next year and Infinity Ward probably following the same route with Ghosts come 2016. For the time being, then, hopes amongst the vast majority of gamers for a reduction of the number of annual shoot-em-ups during the incumbent generation of console hardware appear to be largely in vain. We'll keep you posted right here with all of the gossip on COD, its rivals and the FPS genre as a whole in the months ahead!
Call of Duty will return with a new instalment on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Nintendo WiiU and PC this November.
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