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How players will get in the groove with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I’ve played the multiplayer combat of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 a couple of times, and it takes a little getting used to. But Activision’s Treyarch studio believes it won’t take long for players to get accustomed to the differences in controls for the latest installment of Call of Duty coming this fall.

Black Ops 4 won’t have a single-player campaign, but it will have multiplayer, three Zombies episodes, and a new battle royale map dubbed Blackout. I played the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, and then I interviewed senior producer Yael Miller and gameplay designer Matt Scronce of Treyarch.

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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.