The announcement of this year’sCall of Dutytitle appears to be imminent. Less than two weeks before E3 2019, all of theCall of Dutysocial media accounts have “gone dark” including the official Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Call of Duty2019 is being developed by franchise creator Infinity Ward and has been long rumored to be a fourth installment in the popularModern Warfareseries, following 2011’sModern Warfare 3. Earlier this week, news broke from Kotaku’s Jason Schreier that the next installment would, in fact, be asoft reboot of theModern Warfareseries, simply calledCall of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Now the officialCall of DutyTwitter account has changed its profile picture to a black background with theCall of Dutylogo displayed in white and the header image has been changed to an all black display. The description has also been changed to “Going Dark” with each of the foreign accounts translating to something similar. And multiple media outlets have cited sources prior to the social media accounts going dark that claimCall of Duty: Modern Warfareis going to be announced on May 30.
Activision and Infinity Ward are yet to make any official announcements, but Kotaku did further claim thatCall of Duty: Modern Warfarehas been shown to the press and YouTube/Twitch “Influencers” in the past two weeks and more information is likely to come sometime this week. According to Schreier,Call of Duty: Modern Warfarehas taken inspiration from thecontroversialModern Warfare 2mission, “No Russian”, which involved the player shooting civilians at an airport.
Call of Dutygames are generally announced in Late April/Early May with additional gameplay footage shown at one of the press conferences during E3. Leaving the reveal this close to E3 is an unexpected move, however, following the recentrumors about 2020’s Black Ops 5, Activision turning all social media accounts dark now means that May 30 is almost guaranteed.
