Updated: Activision acknowledges leaks with unveiling of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Update at 12:55 a.m. Activision confirmed the story by releasing the game trailer.

The secret project for the next Call of Duty has sprung a few leaks. Activision released a Vice-produced video about private military corporations threatening democracy. Then Game Informer showed a screen shot from its cover story about the new potential blockbuster game in an issue that debuts on Sunday. And now game site Destructoid has dug out the first game trailer for a game that it calls Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

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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.