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Hands-on with Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s new specialists: Prophet and Nomad

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision unveiled two more “specialist” soldiers for multiplayer combat in its Call of Duty: Black Ops III first-person shooter game, which debuts Nov. 6. They’re pretty deadly soldiers, and they are part of a collection of characters that the developers at game studio Treyarch believe will keep players engaged in multiplayer combat.

The company made the announcement during a hands-on preview press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. It was a rare chance for me to be one of the first people in the world to play Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer.

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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.