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With Call of Duty: Ghosts, Activision seeks to continue a video game franchise that defies gravity (preview)

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Activision Blizzard unveiled its not-so-secret, long-awaited (at least since November) installment in the fastest-selling video game franchise of all time. Call of Duty: Ghosts will debut this fall on a variety of platforms including Microsoft’s next-generation game console.

Eric Hirshberg, president and CEO of Activision Publishing, describes the game as the “best Call of Duty ever.” He also said that about the last one, and it is genuinely touching to see how he means it. But you can’t make fun of him. So far, he hasn’t been wrong.

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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.