Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout battle royale map.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout battle royale map.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout battle royale closed beta goes live

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout closed beta test for its first battle royale map is now live on the PlayStation 4.

The Call of Duty community is getting its first experience with the Blackout mode, which drops 80 players into a last-player-standing map that is 1,500 times the size of Nuketown.

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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.