Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's latest expansion, Operation Grand Heist.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's latest expansion, Operation Grand Heist.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches battle royale upgrade, new maps to counter Apex Legends

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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You could think of it as the “Don’t forget about us announcement.” While Respawn’s battle royale rival Apex Legends is soaring beyond 25 million users, the makers of the Call of Duty battle royale mode have announced a new expansion.

Today, Treyarch and Activision revealed the Operation Grand Heist event and new content for Call of Duty: Blackout 4 multiplayer, Blackout battle royale, and Zombies mode on the PlayStation 4. This update seems bigger than the usual content drop, and perhaps that is a recognition of the tougher competition that Activision faces against rivals like Apex Legends and Fortnite.

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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.