The weapons and gadgets of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

With the tagline “Advanced Warfare,” the next Call of Duty should have some pretty cool weapons, gadgets, and vehicles.

Based on the initial trailer from last night, Activision’s Sledgehammer Games studio has been creative coming up with a fresh crop of new inventions for the private military of the near future. No doubt we’ll see more at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June. But Activision has already given us a lot to speculate about in cinematic gameplay that it captured on the Xbox One video game console.

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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.