Diving on what will later be the dam in 1984 Verdansk in Warzone.
Diving on what will later be the dam in 1984 Verdansk in Warzone 1.0. Warzone 2.0 is on the way.
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Call of Duty: Warzone debuts biggest map change in a year with 1984 Verdansk

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Call of Duty: Warzone free-to-play battle royale game has grown to more than 100 million downloads in the past 13 months on the strength of one major map.

But Activision blew up that map yesterday, with a nuclear missile landing on the city of Verdansk in a desperate attempt to wipe out a zombie infestation. And now Warzone’s creators have unveiled a new map, in the same place but set back in time to 1984. And the result is a new setting for Warzone heroics to unfold.

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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.