{"id":89602,"date":"2026-09-16T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89602"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:42:38","slug":"call-of-duty-developer-treyarch-ready-to-make-something-new-as-it-waves-goodbye-to-2-years-of-black-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89602","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty Developer Treyarch &#8216;Ready to Make Something New&#8217; as It Waves Goodbye to 2 Years of Black Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Call of Duty developer Treyarch has said it\u2019s \u201cready to make something new\u201d as it waves goodbye to two years of Black Ops games.<\/p>\n<p>Treyarch led development on two Black Ops games back-to-back: 2024\u2019s Black Ops 6 and 2025\u2019s Black Ops 7. With Season 6 hitting Black Ops 7 on September 17, the developer has signalled it\u2019s moving on to its next Call of Duty game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a bittersweet goodbye, but I think over the last two years, we&#8217;ve learned a lot,\u201d design director Kevin Drew said in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F4AhvIKwIYM?si=rXWS6sliTrchU4JO\">dev talk video<\/a>. \u201cWe&#8217;ve tried a lot of things in our current era. But we&#8217;re ready to make something new and something that nobody&#8217;s ever experienced before. In the meantime though, I will see you all playing in Season 6 on September 17th.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-best-call-of-duty-campaigns\" data-value=\"the-best-call-of-duty-campaigns\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>What this means, exactly, is unclear. Could Treyarch be talking about making a new Call of Duty game not in the Black Ops subbrand? Is Treyarch\u2019s next Call of Duty not Black Ops 8? That would be something of a surprise, given Black Ops\u2019 popularity and brand power despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-suffers-terrible-launch-in-europe-with-63-fewer-copies-sold-than-battlefield-6-but-theres-important-context-to-consider\">Black Ops 7\u2019s high-profile commercial struggles<\/a>. Perhaps Treyarch is talking about doing something brand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty developer Treyarch has said it\u2019s \u201cready to make something new\u201d as it waves goodbye to two years of Black Ops games. Treyarch led development on two Black Ops games back-to-back: 2024\u2019s Black Ops 6 and 2025\u2019s Black Ops 7. With Season 6 hitting Black Ops 7 on September 17, the developer has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":89604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89606,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89602\/revisions\/89606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}