Oops. Looks like someone has lost their job again, and someone else has been sent to the depths of hell by Bobby Kotick. A listing for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 popped up over on Amazon France this week before being quickly taken back down, but nothing escapes the watchful eye of the internet.
Predictably, someone managed to get a screenshot of it before it could be removed, and it was posted on various sites, including French gaming website GameBlog.fr.
Activision has been doing its best to minimize the damage, asking (demanding) that various sites running the report remove it from their website. GameBlog.fr has refused, and publicly exposed Activision’s hostile response – cutting the French site off from advertisement support, review game mailings and future Activision events. Ouch.
The scramble to get the lid on all of this only makes it look more likely to be true, and one can’t help but wonder if Activision is going to tarnish its reputation again by handling the situation in the manner that they have. Trying to censor the press and then cutting off those who don’t comply seems a little bit shady; the leak is their fault after all.
While this isn’t the first rumour to float around about Black Ops 2, this definitely goes a long way in confirming that the next Call of Duty game we’re likely to see is Black Ops 2, developed by Treyarch for a 2012 release.
Here’s the smoking gun:
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Blops V1.5? 2 would be a long shot, sure they going to call its BLOPS 2, but its going to be just like the whole MW2/3 debacle.
Once bitten, twice shy i am afraid.