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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer beta brings back fierce duels

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

It’s like the holidays in August. Activision and Treyarch are in the midst of giving players their first broadly available taste of multiplayer combat in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and I’ve been diving into the core Team Deathmatch and Control modes on the PlayStation 4.

The Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta test continues until 10 a.m. Pacific time on Monday August 6, and it has six maps, 10 Specialists, and a familiar Pick 10 system where you can customize your loadout. The full game will debut on October 12 without a single-player campaign, but it will have multiplayer, three Zombies episodes, and a new battle royale map dubbed Blackout. Treyarch isn’t showing off battle royale yet.

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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.