Call of Duty: Black Ops -- Cold War's first scene takes place in Turkey.
Call of Duty: Black Ops -- Cold War's first scene takes place in Turkey.
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PlayStation 4 players can play alpha multiplayer for Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War starting September 18

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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During the Sony PlayStation 5 Showcase today, Activision showed off the first campaign gameplay for Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, and it said PlayStation 4 gamers will be able to play an open alpha test of the game’s multiplayer from September 18 to September 20. The game debuts on November 13 on the PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

The first scene that Raven Software’s Dan Vondrak showed takes place in Turkey, on an airfield in a place called Trabzon. Your job is to take out a high-value target on a mission starting in stealth mode.

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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.