Polina Petrova in Call of Duty: Vanguard.
Polina Petrova in Call of Duty: Vanguard.
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Call of Duty: Vanguard reveals a sniper’s survival skills at Gamescom’s opening night

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sledgehammer Games showed off a new single-player campaign level for Call of Duty: Vanguard that featured Polina Petrova, a Russian sniper.

The game is the next installment of the Call of Duty series that has sold more than 400 million copies to date. It will take players back to World War II and weave a global story about the birth of the special forces.

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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.