Rumors indicate possibility of free-to-play Call of Duty zombie game along with Warzone 2 in 2023

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The Call of Duty (COD) fanbase was surprised to hear the recent announcement about the franchise moving away from its annual release cycle for the first time in nearly two decades.

Earlier in the day, a Bloomberg report stated that Activision will be shifting an unnamed COD title to 2024 from its earlier planner release period. This effectively means that Modern Warfare II (confirmed to be released in Fall 2022) will be the only mainstream COD release in two years.

However, there's also the planned release of Warzone 2 that Activision has confirmed. Based on a section from the same report, it now seems that there could be a different game altogether.

This was spotted by the Reddit community, who were quick to upload it. The main indicator comes from how Bloomberg worded the free-to-play online game on which even Treyarch is likely assisting.

Call of Duty Warzone 2 has already been confirmed, and if that is the free-to-play game in question, the report would have used Warzone 2 as the title.

Once the wording in the main article was noted, the Call of Duty community was rife with various speculations. There have been several suggestions, including some really bizarre ones, but an old tweet by reliable insider Tom Henderson stood out.

Earlier in 2021, Tom had tweeted about a standalone zombie project in development. Zombies have been a part of many Call of Duty games since 2010's Black Ops, but were never available to play as a standalone title.

But Tom has now made a fresh tweet hinting at the possibility of the standalone zombie project seeing fruition. It should be noted that there has been no official word on this yet. For all the speculation, it could well be the case that the wording in the Bloomberg article is an error.

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