Hostage rescue is part of Modern Warfare II multiplayer.
Hostage rescue is part of Modern Warfare II multiplayer.
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The DeanBeat: Activision steps up with next generation Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 4 min

Activision Blizzard pulled out some pretty big guns yesterday with news about Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, the new installment of Call of Duty coming on my birthday on October 28.

The company needed to do that, after wandering in the deserts of game delays and a horrendous sexual harassment lawsuit. Activision Blizzard always seemed to bring bad news to the surface, even to the point that it decided to sell itself to Microsoft for $68.5 billion.

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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.