Call of Duty: WWII confirmed as the world’s biggest shooter returns to its roots

Call of Duty is returning to its roots as a World War II game. Activision and Sledgehammer Games confirmed today that Sledgehammer is working on Call of Duty: World War II for this year’s release in the top-selling series in the gaming industry.

Activision will reveal more details in a 10 a.m. livestream on April 26. The stream will feature Sledgehammer Games co-studio heads and founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield. The news confirms a leak from a few weeks ago which show images from the game in a World War II setting. It so happens that Condrey and Schofield are speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event on May 1 in Berkeley, California.

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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.