Battery character in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Activision reveals Operation Absolute Zero content drop

Activision and Treyarch revealed the first major content update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The Operation Absolute Zero will launch on December 11 with new features for PlayStation 4 players.

One of the bigger changes is a new Specialist, dubbed Zero, who joins the nine other Specialist characters that players can choose to play in multiplayer matches.

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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.