Vietnam War level in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Vietnam War level in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
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Nielsen: Avengers, Call of Duty, and Spider-Man: Miles Morales are fall’s most-anticipated games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Global measurement and analytics firm Nielsen said in a report today that the most anticipated games of the year are Marvel’s Avengers, Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The report is based on a survey of more than 6,000 gamers.

Besides COVID-19, one of the big problems game developers are facing is the impact of the upcoming PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X console launches. Neither Sony nor Microsoft has disclosed the release dates for the consoles, and that means a lot of the fall game launch dates on some of the platforms are up in the air.

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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.