Activision has formally introduced Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 by way of a teaser video. It is rumored to launch this October throughout Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. Microsoft now owns Activision and the Name of Responsibility franchise, however new releases–like Black Ops 6–will proceed to launch as multiplatform releases.

Principally nothing is understood about Black Ops 6 as of but, however the teaser video describes it as a “darkish new chapter” of the Black Ops sequence. The sport’s worldwide reveal will happen on June 9 as a part of the Xbox Video games Showcase occasion.

The story for Black Ops 6 is rumored to happen, no less than partly, throughout the Gulf Struggle. Name of Responsibility video games are identified to be globetrotting affairs that journey by way of quite a few locations–and time intervals. So if the Gulf Struggle is a part of the sport’s story, it could possibly be only one aspect of it.

Rumors have advised the brand new sport has been within the works for a very long time and would be the first sport in franchise historical past to have been developed over a four-year period. This lies in stark distinction to 2023’s Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare III, which was reportedly made in simply 18 months.

That is the sixth entry within the sequence because it debuted in 2010. The Black Ops franchise inside Name of Responsibility has turn into probably the most common of all, and profitable, too. Dave Anthony, the director of the primary two Black Ops video games, not too long ago mentioned how he made “unbelievable quantities of cash” throughout his profession.

By way of returning characters, it is rumored that Adler is coming again, however that is all we all know up to now. The Black Ops sequence is understood for that includes real-life folks, like Ronald Reagan (Black Ops Chilly Struggle) and Robert McNamara (Black Ops 1), so it would not be stunning to see real-life navy and political leaders from the Gulf Struggle period seem within the new sport.

A report from Insider Gaming stated Raven Software program is growing the sport’s marketing campaign, with Treyarch–the creator of the Black Ops series–handling multiplayer and Zombies. Treyarch and Raven seemingly confirmed their involvement within the sport in social media posts. Activision is understood to recruit groups from throughout its total community of Name of Responsibility studios to contribute to every 12 months’s new launch in some trend, and that components is predicted to proceed this 12 months.

For extra, try GameSpot’s rundown of all the things we all know in regards to the subsequent Name of Responsibility. Black Ops 6 will be part of Name of Responsibility: Warzone, Name of Responsibility: Warzone Cellular, and Name of Responsibility: Cellular available on the market on the similar time.