Call of Duty: Black OPs III Awakening DLC
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III — Awakening DLC goes big on fan nostalgia

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision Blizzard and its Treyarch studio are making fans nostalgic in a big way with the Awakening downloadable content (DLC) map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

Activision released the DLC map, the first a quartet for the best-selling Black Ops III, today as part of its plan to keep 40 million Call of Duty monthly players engaged with the newest entry in the 10 year, $10 billion-plus Call of Duty series. Black Ops III launched in November and it has been one of the best-selling Call of Duty games ever.

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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.