With the fairly rapid turnaround of new Call of Duty content that is released practically every year, there are always swathes of information regarding the titles that get leaked and hinted at by in-the-know sources and data miners. This information can range from the fairly innocuous to the massively revealing, meaning that there is always large amounts of attention on any potential leak to see where it lands.
A huge and very high-profile set of leaks have slowly been revealed over the past few days, supposedly regarding two separate upcoming Call of Duty titles. The scope and scale of the leaks are rather unprecedented, drawing even more attention than what CoD related leaks have received historically.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Leaks
The general majority of the recent Call of Duty leaks regard the massively anticipated upcoming release of Modern Warfare 2. As the second installment of the popular reboot of the Modern Warfare franchise, the upcoming MW2 has a lot to live up to in regard to its 2019 predecessor, as well as its iconic original source material.
Set to release on October 28 of this year, Modern Warfare 2 is at a time in its development in which the risk and likelihood of information leaks regarding the title are at their highest. While many of the broader details of Modern Warfare 2's campaign are already known to fans, the more intricate details of the title's multiplayer modes are currently unknown, or at least, they were before the recent leaks.
Aside from rumors that MW2's beta will take place in September, shortly before launch, the biggest leaks in question supposedly concern several of the multiplayer maps that Modern Warfare 2 will boast at launch. The leaks revealed what appear to be loading-screen images of four MW2 maps, named Saba, Museum, Oil Field, and Grand Prix. Bizarrely, the map names and loading images reportedly came from a data-mine of the upcoming mobile port of the popular battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone. Within the closed alpha files of Warzone Mobile, map information for Modern Warfare 2 was oddly found, along with information regarding an untitled CoD, beyond the upcoming MW2.
Treyarch 2024 Call of Duty Leaks
Found within the closed alpha files of Warzone Mobile was information that supposedly relates to the next Call of Duty, which is reportedly set to be spearheaded by veteran CoD development studio Treyarch. While the leaks regarding this currently unnamed title are comparatively smaller to those of Modern Warfare 2 in scale, the hints that they reportedly provide as to the setting of the Treyarch title are potentially invaluable.
One of the latest CoD titles that Treyarch worked on was Cold War, the most recent installment of the iconic Black Ops series of games that Treyarch has crafted over the years. With people logically thinking that the next Treyarch title will also be Black Ops related, the recent leaks have only stoked the fires of this line of thought. The leaks for this title also pertain to supposed multiplayer maps, with two in total being shown.
The maps are called Stealth and Pillage, and point towards a desert Middle Eastern setting. These leaks have left many to speculate that this upcoming title will be set in the 1990s, more specifically the Gulf War, as a part of the Black Ops series. Another reportedly leaked filename from the data mine mentions "mogadishu," which appears to reference a famous battle that occurred in Somalia in the early '90s. With this giving further credence to the Gulf War setting of this upcoming Call of Duty game, the leaks appear to paint a varied and ambitious immediate future for the famous shooter franchise.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 releases October 28 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.