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Leaked prepaid card confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops II and its launch date

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Rumors have been swirling around Activision’s next big game. Now a leaked Target prepaid card has further confirmed the existence of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, according to IGN. The card says the release date is Nov. 13, 2012.

Activision Blizzard has fueled the speculation by setting up a mysterious Call-of-Duty-style web site with a clock counting down to May 1. The cards say the game will be available on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.

Activision has released a new Call of Duty every November since Call of Duty 2 in 2006, which was a launch title for the Xbox 360. Since then, developers Infinity Ward and Treyarch have taken turns handling new releases in the series. The games have become the best-selling video games of all time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.