Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone sequels coming in 2022

A sequel to 2019’s Modern Warfare, Call of DutyActivision revealed Friday that it will release the next entry to the shooter series. The game is being developed by Infinity Ward alongside a follow-up to Call of Duty’s popular free-to-play battle royale game, Warzone. The Modern Warfare sequel is set to launch in late 2022, sticking to Activision’s normal release schedule for the series.

We don’t yet know what the game will be called. However, Infinity Ward will be following the same model as Modern Warfare, this would be the studio’s second game named Modern Warfare 2 – Call of Duty — the last one came out in 2009 as a sequel to 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It’s a good idea to keep this straight.

The game and the “new Warzone experience” — which seems to be a full-scale sequel to the existing battle royale game — are being “designed together from the ground-up,” Activision said in a blog post. Infinity Ward will create both the engine and game.

It Warzone follow-up, which the announcement describes as a “massive evolution of battle royale,” will feature an “all-new playspace” and a new sandbox mode. The new development Warzone is being headed up by Infinity Ward; it’s unclear what the role of current developer Raven Software is for the game.

However, the announcement didn’t specify when it would be released. Warzone Following up on the initial report, it mentioned only 2022 which indicates that it would be available before the year ends.