Dean Takahashi gets a kill on the Gridlock map of Black Ops 4.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — My best multiplayer match yet

When I can get more kills than deaths in a Call of Duty match, it’s a glorious day. As a relatively elderly player of Call of Duty, I can honestly and proudly say that I’m a middle-of-the-pack player. Other people will post glorious videos of their great kills and kill streaks on YouTube. But with me, you can witness a completely average guy playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer, which debuted last Friday on the consoles and PC. The game is selling quite well.

I like to think that I’m making the internet safe for average gameplay videos. My latest video, along with plenty of other pre-launch videos, is there for you to see on our VentureBeat YouTube channel. In this video of a multiplayer Team Deathmatch battle on the Gridlock map, I managed to get 19 kills and 14 deaths, for a kill/death ratio of 1.36. My team still lost, but I placed second on it, rather than fifth or sixth as I usually do.

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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.