A follow-up to 2010's Black Ops has always been the most popular
rumour for this year's Call Of Duty, and it's looking more likely with
every passing rumour. The latest centres on retailer Amazon's French
website, who put up listings for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 and then
quickly took them down again.
Apparently Activision has been so upset about the leak that they've
banned French websites that reported it from press events and refused to
send them any future review copies. We've no idea if that's true, but
it sounds odd given that the Black Ops 2 rumours have been going for
months now - with the most recent evidence being Activision's
registering of a
Black Ops 2 website.
The
rumours specifically point to a prequel to the first game, focusing on
the early adventures of CIA operative Frank Woods. As if the Amazon
listing wasn't enough, a new mention of the game was also found on a
developer's online CV over the weekend.
Hugo Beyer of Nerve Software listed Black Ops 2 on his LinkedIn profile,
before also quickly removing it. Nerve has helped out with ports and
multiplayer maps for a number of Activision titles in the past,
including Wolfenstein 3D, Quantum Of Solace, and, wouldn't you know it,
Call Of Duty: Black Ops.
It's not the only Call Of Duty game doing the rounds on the rumourmill
at the moment though, with Sony's Guy Longworth, who's just become
senior vice president of PlayStation brand marketing, confirming that a
version of Call Of Duty will be appearing on the PS Vita this autumn.
'Of course in the autumn, they're really looking forward to Call of Duty on Vita,' he said of his two sons, to website
GameTrailers. 'We think that's going to be an absolute game-changer for the platform.'
Whatever
the game is it could indeed have a profound effect on the PS Vita's
fortunes in the West, even if it's just a version of Black Ops 2 (or
whatever this year's game is). If it's something even more unique to the
Vita then you could be looking at a kingmaker on the scale of Monster
Hunter in Japan.
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