Modern Warfare

Call of Duty has kicked off DMZ week for Modern Warfare 4 with a Worldbuilder trailer and a developer video, pitching an extraction mode built around weather, objectives and progression.

Modern Warfare 4's PC rundown confirms day-one support for DLSS 4.5, FSR Redstone and XeSS 3 together, plus a RICOCHET anti-cheat system still leaning on TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot.

Warzone's Season 1 update introduces an Operator Skin toggle that lets players control which operators they see, filtering out years of crossover content from past Call of Duty titles. Previously earned and purchased content stays accessible through Carry Forward, ahead of Modern Warfare 4's October 23 launch.

Team RICOCHET is targeting Cronus cheating hardware with a new wave of hardware bans ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's October 23 launch. Activision has not published any figures alongside the update, a notable absence given how often the company touts its anti-cheat numbers.

Activision paired Modern Warfare 4's new campaign trailer with a separate recap trailer just to get players caught up, then confirmed the campaign stays gated behind a digital pre-order until October 17.

Modern Warfare 4's pre-order bonus, the Inner Circuit M4 Blueprint, unlocks on every platform, but Xbox Series X/S buyers get an exclusive translucent green finish tied to Xbox's 25th anniversary.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's "Stranded" vignette shows a tense North Korea infiltration mission, but its real purpose is reminding pre-order customers they get campaign access a week early, on October 16, ahead of the October 23 global launch.

Activision published RICOCHET Anti-Cheat crackdown numbers, 375+ disrupted operations, 80+ cease-and-desists, right as Modern Warfare 4's wide-platform Open Beta went live ahead of its October 23 launch.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is heading to Nintendo Switch 2, its first appearance on a Nintendo console since 2011. Pre-orders are live and the Open Beta runs August 29 through September 2 with cross-play, Joy-Con 2 mouse support and the new Zodiac Warzone map.

AMD's new Adrenalin 26.8.1 driver adds day-one FSR 4 support for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, claiming up to 3x FPS gains on RX 9000 cards, plus support for STAR WARS Zero Company, the Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta, and the Radeon RX 9050.

Modern Warfare 4's Beta reworks Create-a-Class so Operators are tied to individual loadouts, up to 12 at once, while Weekend Two brings back Warzone Resurgence on a new map called Zodiac.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Beta opens August 22 with a new anti-cheat hardware gate, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are now required on PC, but it also marks the first time a single-player Campaign mission has ever been playable inside a Beta.