Call Of Duty: Black Ops 5 and Warzone maps leaked by Activision

metro.co.uk:

A dataminer has turned up new images from not only Modern Warfare 2 but 2024’s game as well – which seem to be set during the Gulf War.

At some point, game makers are going to have to learn not to stuff their online updates full of secret information. Between that and job ads that reveal things they’d never admit in public, the best source of video game leaks is usually the publisher themselves.

Fortnite leaks, for example, are almost never from an inside source but a dataminer combing through the latest update. And so is the case with the latest info on Call Of Duty, including the first ever look at the 2024 game.

A series of 10 images, that appear to be concept art or loading screens, were discovered in the files of the alpha for the new Call Of Duty Mobile and they offer a first look at not just Modern Warfare 2’s maps but those of the 2024 Call Of Duty game, which seems to be Black Ops 5.

Why on earth the files are in the code for a mobile game is a question that’s not going to have any sensible answer but it suggests some very sloppy file management between the various different developers working on the franchise.

The likely reason Call Of Duty 2023 isn’t in there, is that previous rumours have suggested that Activision Blizzard is giving the franchise a rest next year, although the publisher has so far denied it.

The big news though is the two images from Call Of Duty 2024, which appears to be set during the Gulf War, as one features a F-117 ‘stealth fighter’ at an airbase, an aircraft which was popularised by the war (but has since been retired).

The other image shows a soldier entering a half destroyed building that looks very much like images of Saddam Hussein’s palace during the Gulf War.

Since it’s known that the