activision blizzard has revealed this years call of duty title the call of duty game for this year would be modern warfare 2 a direct sequel to 2019s modern warfare the game developer and publisher made the announcement via the official call of duty twitter account in the 16seconds video clip shared with the tweet the new era of call of duty is coming modernwarfare2 only the logo of the upcoming game was revealedthis announcement puts the rumours about no mainline call of duty titles to be launched this year to rest earlier due to a report by bloomberg it was rumoured that owing to the poor sales of call of duty vanguard activision could be toying with the idea of skipping this year and launching a new call of duty game only in 2023 a rumour which the game publisher had denied in a statement given to toi techgadgets now regarding the companys plan for future call of duty games activision had said we have an exciting slate of premium and freetoplay call of duty experiences for this year next year and beyond reports of anything otherwise are incorrect we look forward to sharing more details when the time is right the new modern warfare 2 will be the fifth major entry in the modern warfare series of call of duty games apart from the logo reveal nothing else is known about the game for nowcall of duty modern warfare 2019 is one of the most successful games in the call of duty franchise when call of duty modern warfare launched in 2019 it also brought its battle royale standalone game warzone that could be played for free warzone was an instant smash hit in the first four days of the games launch around 15 million players had joined it a number that went to 60 million and kept increasing