While this year’s incarnation see’s Infinite Warfare’s Infinity Ward (try saying that five times fast without tying your tongue in a Gordian knot) step up to the plate for a rumoured new Modern Warfare 4, next year’s chapter in the franchise will see Sledgehammer back in action. Or maybe not.

Call of Duty is going mobile! No, it’s not a plug for a new game on the Nintendo Switch called Call of Duty: Rock out with Your Black Ops out, but rather a new direction for the franchise as it heads into the realm of Android and iOS.

If you gave Michael Bay an unlimited budget, Modern Warfare 2 would have been the result, albeit with slightly less Aerosmith. What I’m saying is, is that the game is chuffing good and deserving of a second chance to shine ten years after it was first released. Which is probably what’s going to be happening, as a recent listing on the PEGI website for Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered was briefly put up on that website before it was taken down.

It’s a rumour no longer, as Activision Blizzard has officially begun laying off workers. In an earnings call held yesterday, Activision Blizzard announced that 8% of its workforce would be facing termination, a number that works out to around nearly 800 jobs being lost from an initial employment capacity of 9600 from across Activision, Blizzard and King.

It’s going to be a tough week for some people in the video game industry. While it’s not official yet, it looks like Activision Blizzard will be shedding some weight on Tuesday as financial site Bloomberg has reported that the publisher will be handing out pink slips to hundreds of employees.

Back in June 2018, President of video game giant 2K David Ismailer told Variety that he wanted to double the publisher’s title collection in size over the next five years. An ambitious notion, as 2K has garnered a reputation for sparing no sympathy for under-performing studios. There is now news on that front, and it concerns the co-founder of Sledgehammer …

South Africans love sports. Whether it’s sitting a whole day watching people chase a leather ball, fervently supporting your national football team regardless of how bad they are or crying because the Springboks yet again lost in the last-minute – we take our sports passionately. Which is arguably one of the reasons why the country hosts so many popular sporting …

We want to be bold, we want to be brave and we want to throw our own hats into the ring with a few ideas of our own, that will see the gaming industry undergo some radical change this year. Are we even remotely psychic? Not a chance, but we’re feeling pretty confident that none of these predictions will come back to bite us in the ass. None of them.