Details have leaked around the launch of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7, including a release date, price, and the absence of a Switch 2 edition.
Following its reveal trailer earlier this year, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 is set for a full blowout at Gamescom Opening Night Live next Tuesday.
However, as is customary for Call Of Duty, a bunch of details around the game’s launch have leaked ahead of time.
According to reliable leaker billbil-kun, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 will launch worldwide on November 14, 2025 across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. This date was originally mentioned by Call Of Duty insider GhostOfHope, so is almost certainly accurate.
You might have noticed one platform is missing from that line-up: the Nintendo Switch 2. Microsoft has repeatedly promised Call Of Duty is coming to Nintendo’s console, after it signed a 10-year deal to do so as part of its Activision Blizzard acquisition, but the company still hasn’t made any official announcement of when to expect it – or indeed any other Switch 2 games.
According to billbil-kun (via Dealabs), Black Ops 7 will not be available on the Nintendo Switch 2 at launch. However, they note it is ‘unclear’ whether Activision is planning to bring a port to the console at a later date.
Considering Black Ops 7 is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, a Switch 2 version should be relatively easy – but there’s a chance Activision, like many other publishers, weren’t given a Switch 2 devkit ahead of the system’s launch.
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The same report has other details on Black Ops 7’s launch. Unlike other Microsoft-published games like The Outer Worlds 2, the upcoming shooter will have a physical release with the disc included across all platforms, at the usual price of £69.99.
According to the leaker, pre-orders for Black Ops 7 will go live on Wednesday, August 20, after the game’s reveal at Gamescom the night prior.
This isn’t the only leak around Black Ops 7 over the past week, as details have emerged around the game’s campaign mode. However, they relate to the campaign’s last mission, so if you don’t want to be potentially spoiled, turn away now.
*** Warning: spoilers for the ending of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 ***
According to Insider Gaming, the final campaign mission in Black Ops 7 will integrate with the multiplayer mode for the first time ever. It’s claimed the long-rumoured ‘Avalon’ map, which was originally planned for Warzone, will now be used as part of the campaign.
It’s said that select parts of this Avalon map will be used throughout the campaign, but the final mission will give players access to the full map in a ’32-player multiplayer experience’.
According to the site, who cite information from anonymous sources, the final mission ‘sounds awfully like an extraction-based shooter’. It mentions that players will need to ‘complete objectives and extract’, and if you’re entire squad is killed, ‘you will lose all your character’s progress’.
This move is apparently driven by the desire to integrate progression across all modes (campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies), so even when you’re playing the campaign, you’ll be able to level up weapons, characters, and progress in the Battle Pass.
If true, this is probably to encourage more multiplayer-centric players to engage with the campaign, which will support four-player co-op in Black Ops 7.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was previously criticised for incorporating Warzone’s Verdansk map into the campaign, but it sounds like this will be a somewhat different approach (and with a new map), although we’ll have to see when the game launches.
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