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New trailer finally reveals story behind Call of Duty: Black Ops III

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision is finally adding the tip to the marketing spear for Call of Duty: Black Ops III by releasing a trailer about the story for the game, which comes out on November 6.

I’ve always enjoyed the single-player campaign stories in Call of Duty games, though many also play just for its multiplayer. This year, Activision and Treyarch released only rudimentary details of the story and showed much more of the multiplayer for this first-persons shooter than in the past.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.