Warzone is getting a makeover with Season One of Cold War.

Call of Duty: Warzone’s Cold War gameplay revealed with new map

Activision showed off the first gameplay scenes for the version of Call of Duty: Warzone with Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War.

Warzone is getting its big Season One update on December 16 (11 p.m. Pacific time on December 15), and it will include a new map for the first time since the battle royale mode debuted in March. Warzone has been extremely successful, with 80 million downloads and counting. Along with Call of Duty: Mobile, it helped boost the Call of Duty franchise to $3 billion in the past year and become a year-round franchise.

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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.