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Activision shifts allegiance to Sony on Call of Duty

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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LOS ANGELES — After seven weeks without news, Call of Duty fans have a chance today to hear more about the big game at Activision’s Treyarch game studio — Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

Normally, Activision would unveil the big military first-person shooter game at Microsoft’s press event and note that Xbox Live players would get downloadable content (DLC) such as new map packs a month ahead of Sony users.

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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.