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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is coming from Treyarch this year, Activision confirms

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, or if you prefer, Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII, is coming on October 12 as the latest installment in the first-person shooter combat series.

OK, yes, the next Call of Duty has a Roman numeral problem. But we’ll overlook that for now because Activision just confirmed that the fourth series in the Black Ops franchise will be the next Call of Duty game. 2017’s Call of Duty: WWII brought the series back to its original World War II setting and saw its sales recover.

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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.