Call of Duty: Black Ops sequel confirmed for November

"Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a sequel to the 2009 hit a game"

It came out in 2010, not 2009.

Will be interesting to see how all these big-hitters fare this year - I suspect Assassin's Creed, being so different to all these other franchises, will do well regardless, but considering BlOps 2 is now going to be launching a week after Halo 4, there's bound to be some audience crossover. Considering Microsoft will be putting more marketing behind Halo 4 than any other instalment to date, I wonder whether it will sell as well as Halo 3 did.

I suspect Sony will be wanting to release God of War IV or perhaps The Last of Us as it's winter big-hitter, but as far as I know, developers of both games will not be drawn into talking about release dates yet.

Will also be interesting to see if and how the Wii U launch affects all this, and whether Nintendo will have any of their core killer-apps to launch with it. Surely they don't want to repeat the flat launch of the 3DS, so getting a Metroid or Mario or Mario Kart etc instalment in the launch window will be vital for them.

Posted:A year ago

Shocker, a CoD game in November? They should switch it up and do announcements when there WON'T be a CoD game in November because then at least it would be different to previous years.

Posted:A year ago

@ Terence: If you look at GoW: Ascension product page on Playstation's site, you'll see it's set for a Spring 2013 release: http://us.playstation.com/games-and-media/games/god-of-war-ascension-ps3.html

Also, IGN reported on Monday that there is still a lot of work to be done on the game, so a release later this year is out of the question.

Last of Us is more likely for later this year, but, personally, I doubt it.

They still have Playstation All-Star Battle Royal and LittleBigPlanet Karting. Not the heavy hitters you'd expect, but it's something.

Edited 2 times. Last edit by Zan Toplisek on 1st May 2012 9:00pm

Posted:A year ago

@Barrie Tingle: Look, I'm no fan of the Call of Duty model, but someone working at Danger Close commenting on Call of Duty is rather pointless.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Weston Sohlden on 2nd May 2012 3:49am

Posted:A year ago

I think BlOps 2 won't do that well. I mean, its will still sell loads, but not as many as the last. Halo 4 will threaten it, with its strong online multiplayer and the fact that every Halo has a different feel and feature set. Add to the fact that its been a very long time since Post Modern Warfare CoD has introduced majorly new mechanics and the media is already rife with talks of 'CoD fatigue' I think we may be looking at a stock drop a week or two after launch.

Posted:9 months ago