Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 listed on Amazon France - report

By Fred Dutton Published 17 February, 2012

Product page pulled, Activision gets shirty.

The identity of this year's Call of Duty title may just have been outed by the French arm of online retailer Amazon.

According to a Gameblog report, as translated by Gamespot, a product page for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 appeared on the site this week before quickly being taken down.

Gameblog then claimed that Activision demanded it remove its original report too. When it refused to do so, the publisher apparently rescinded an invitation to a Transformers: Fall of Cybertron preview event and pulled advertising bookings it had with the site.

The publisher has thus far declined to comment.

A direct sequel to 2010's Black Ops would be no great surprise - it's still the best-selling game of all time on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Activision has confirmed that a new Call of Duty title will hit shelves later this year, and promised that it will feature "meaningful innovation" for the FPS series.

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Comments (35) Latest comment 3 months ago

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  • richarddavies #1 3 months ago

    Wouldn't surprise me if true. From a business perspective it would be a bit silly to not do a sequel to the most successful game of all time.

  • chaywa #2 3 months ago

    And the winner for the 'Most Obvious Cashcow" of 2012 goes to...

  • Timotei #3 3 months ago

    Oh goody.

  • weejok #4 3 months ago

    .....and cue the Call of Duty hate thread *yawn*

  • the_dudefather #5 3 months ago

    I quite liked Black Ops for a bit, if just for this bit:



    /easily pleased
    Edited by the_dudefather at 17/02/12 @ 17:42

  • liamaland #6 3 months ago

    anddddd why am i not surprised its black ops 2?

    oh yea thats why because its shitarch

    im sorry but they wont get my money not after the shitty PC "dedicated" port that they done last outting

  • Architect_z #7 3 months ago

    "Blops." Sounds like the noise made from poo falling into toilet water.

  • t8yman #8 3 months ago

    props to gameblog.fr for not caving in to the threats. i'm sure that transformers preview will be the game event of the year

    /sarcasm

  • arcam #9 3 months ago

    Gameblog then claimed that Activision demanded it remove its original report too. When it refused to do so, the publisher apparently rescinded an invitation to a Transformers: Fall of Cybertron preview event and pulled advertising bookings it had with the site.

    Stay classy Activision.

  • CaptainQuint #10 3 months ago

    Damn, I was hoping for Carl on Duty: Black Cops

  • DDevil #11 3 months ago

    CODBLOPS 2 OUTED BY THE MINISTRY OF THE FUCKING OBVIOUS! EXTREY EXTREY READ ALL ABOUT IT!

  • PixelEdged #12 3 months ago

    More or less confirms Battlefield 4 will go up against MW4 next year :p

  • Zaiz #13 3 months ago

    oh no Treyarch is taking control of the CoD brand. That's even worse than running it into the ground.

    Remember the old Infinity Ward with 1, 2 and 4? Some of the best shooters of all time.

  • BlinkeredAxis #14 3 months ago

    The games market is muturing. Like the music business, sales are increasingly inversely proportional to how good the material is. BLOPS is a perfect example.

  • Daeltaja #15 3 months ago

    How exciting.

  • geeza2020 #16 3 months ago

    "Activision has confirmed that a new Call of Duty title will hit shelves later this year, and promised that it will feature "meaningful innovation" for the FPS series."

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!

  • cloudskipa #17 3 months ago

    The best thing about COD Black Ops was Dead Ops, that was really fun.

  • t8yman #18 3 months ago

    @Zaiz except COD2 was basically unplayable online for the first 4 months? IW's support pre MW3 has basically been abysmal. the SP games were polished and reasonably well executed, and the MP was tight, but badly implemented. Rose Coloured Spectacle Syndrome i feel.

  • PixelEdged #19 3 months ago

    @t8yman
    You mean mw2? CoD 2 was actually a game.

  • LR100 #20 3 months ago

    Did Activision seriously think nobody knew this was coming?

  • Zaiz #21 3 months ago

    @t8yman I'm pretty sure you mean MW2. CoD2 was a last gen game.

  • Toodle122 #22 3 months ago

    @Zaiz Actually CoD2 was an early 360 game.

  • Toodle122 #23 3 months ago

    @t8yman I think he's talking about how good the actual games were, not the support they got from Infinity Ward post-launch.

    As in, CoD 1, 2 and 4 actually had campaigns that were worth your time and innovated in some way.

  • Pedrolot #24 3 months ago

    I dont even class IW as a proper COD developer anymore...

    That last game was horrific!

  • J.C #25 3 months ago

    Another fucking cod. Same engine, different skin. Watch the herd lap it up again lol BAAAAAAAH!

  • Hivess #26 3 months ago

    No, no, no, no. If you're doing another CoD, change setting drastically! I don't want another game with the same weapons, similar locations... Jesus...

    I will only try CoD game if they make it futuristic shooter :f

  • JorgeLuisBorges #27 3 months ago

    Call of duty 8: modern warfare 6, black ops 2

    If you think about the series, and the engine being used, this really should be the full title!

  • t8yman #28 3 months ago

    @Zaiz no, I know exactly what I mean, I finished COD2 on vet, on the 360, and along with 1000's of others, had to deal with a very very broken MP game for the first 4 months IIRC.

  • nathan_digweed #29 3 months ago

    Don't let the Money go to your head Activision, No-one Likes a Bully. Next Respawn game for me, Only so much re-hasing and over charging for mappacks I can take. I love the multiplayer but I am so sick of them trying to milk me for money at every opportunity.

    Give me CoD style Multiplayer, Free Stats and well priced expansion packs and I am sold Mr Respawn Developer Sir!

  • ElNino9 #30 3 months ago

    The CoD star is fading. I lapped it up, but it's defineitly on its way out. Same shit each year.

  • Dr_Z #31 3 months ago

    surely the more worrying part of this story is the blacklisting of a games website for not backing down at Activision's behest?

  • Futaba #32 3 months ago

    Imagine how good the call of duty multiplayer would work with Timesplitters 2 levels, weapons and game types (the infection one was one of my favourites).

    As if Activision would ever try something so creative though.
    Edited by Futaba at 18/02/12 @ 19:09

  • Lunatic4ever #33 3 months ago

    MW2,BLOPS,MW3,BLOPS 2,MW4,BLOPS 4 and the list goes on and on
    and throughout the next years these comment sections will continue to be full of
    COD haters, defenders and mediators... I'm so tired of it. Hope this ends one day.

  • Lucodeath #34 3 months ago

    Another copy an paste game, different countries and uniforms will be the only difference.

  • louyfitz #35 3 months ago

    The really sad thing is that whilst I whole heartedly agree with the haters calls of "same turd, new polish" and "milking the yearly cash cow", I do also find myself feeling compelled to buy any new CoD game based on the fact that since I stopped playing MW3, and before that Black Ops, my lust my gaming has declined. To such a degree that free iOS games have me not even bothering with XBL, until of course the inevitable happens and there's new CoD to conquer, on both SP and online.

    Sad, and I feel like flaming myself due to the above statement.