Rumor: Call of Duty 2024 to Release in October, Avowed in November and Indiana Jones in December - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2024 / 2,825 Views
Microsoft this week announced the Xbox Game Showcase will return on June 9, followed by a "Redacted" Direct that will feature a "special deep-dive into the next installment of a beloved franchise.
The Verge is reporting the "Redacted" Direct will be about the next installment in the Call of Duty franchise, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
The report is also claiming Bethesda is targeting to release the Shattered Space story expansion for Starfield in September and Activision plans to release Call of Duty 2024 in October. Avowed and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will likely launch in November and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in December.
The Verge is also claiming Microsoft plans to announce a new Gears of War game at the Xbox Game Showcase.
The Xbox Game Showcase will feature games from across first-party Xbox studios - Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios, as well as games from third-party partners.
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Damn! Towerborne, Ara: History Untold, and Age of Mythology: Retold are also scheduled for the second half of the year lol. There's even a chance Forza Horizon 6 could be coming out this year too as 3 years has been the longest between releases so far.
What make you think that?
2025 at the latest.
I doubt it, the longest gap between Forza Horizon games so far was the 3 year gap between 4 and 5. If they push 6 all the way to 2026 there will be a 5 year gap between 5 and 6, there series will have gone from a 2 year gap between releases, to 3 years, to 5 years, all in a span of 3 games, I just don't see it happening.
Also we have yet to see a Forza Horizon designed for Xbox Series, 5 was cross-gen and had to be able to run on the potato that is the base XB1. Wouldn't make sense to skip Xbox Series entirely for a Forza Horizon game designed from the ground up for it, far more likely we get Horizon 6 in 2024 or 2025, with it getting a next gen update patch when the next gen Xbox releases in supposedly 2026, and then a built from the ground up for next-gen Forza Horizon 7 in 2027 or 2028 probably.
Certainly a stacked Holiday and Fall release schedule for Xbox. Curious to see if they have anything unannounced for this year.
Holy... a CoD releasing this year?... nah, I don't believe it.
If it doesn't have Treyarch's standard zombie mode then I'm not interested
Feels rushed. Are they aiming for Christmas sales?
What exactly is feeling rushed? Treyarch had an extra year of development on their CoD game, which never happens, and all the other games we've known about for at least several years with many asking annoyingly where they were this whole time. Avowed alone was announced 4 years ago.
Even Indiana Jones we've known about for over 3 years now and will be nearly 4 years if the December release window turns out to be true.
If you're viewing it in the traditional sense of major AAA exclusive release followed by a major marketing campaign, then yeah, I can see how it can come off as rushed, but Xbox doesn't operate the same as Nintendo or Sony do.
Everything is going into Game Pass, so release spacing doesn't really matter when the games are always going to be in Game Pass anyway, but also, what better way to take advantage of your competitors not having a major tentpole release this holiday season than releasing multiple major releases with a blitzkrieg of Xbox marketing all over the place throughout the entire holiday season that will also include the latest CoD?
Nintendo seems likely to release the Switch 2 early next year and Sony will no doubt be back on track with their major first party releases next year as well along with a newly released Pro model, so Xbox has to do everything in their power to gain as much traction as they possibly can. No better time to do that than releasing multiple high-profile games in quick succession when they more or less will have the full spotlight this holiday.
How are you getting this feeling?
If anything those games took a lot of time to come out since announced.
There is always something wrong in every possible ways Microsoft is announcing something. People will find or make up something negative to focus on. This is nuts lol
The first sentence was good. A question into the thought process of the person you are having a discussion with.
The rest comes off as someone that needs therapy for their victim complex.
Releasing three big games in three months feels rushed.
What the hell are you talking about? I understand you probably pat yourself on the shoulder with your wanna-be clever response.
The rest, about three completely DIFFERENT studios, releasing three DIFFERENT games feeling rushed comes from someone who believes we cannot read all your posts/comments to get an obvious sense of what you usually do when replying/commenting on Xbox stuff.
That being said, I hope that even if you want to continue with your smart-ass comments about my state of mind/thought process; you can see how ridiculous your "Releasing three big games in three months feels rushed." at this point. I will go ahead and assume that this is the case and that we can put this behind us.
His comment was literally only 8 words, and in those very few words you managed to find an attack on Xbox.
You know, people's posts/comments in all articles are public, right (including yours)?
And like any great news from Xbox (3 great games in 3 months); the first thing that comes to "some" people's mind is that something MUST be bad instead.
People who tend to favor the "other" side; are the ones coming with those negative "few" words too. Yes, it is very easy to see when the same people (who give no shit about Xbox usually) are doing that. But you definitely know that already, aren't you? :)
Yeah, MS didn't exactly plan to release 3 games in such a small time frame as some kind of big sell. They bought Activision and Bethesda and both games would have come out around then anyway. If anything all they have done is change release dates to space them out as early Nov is usually CoD's thing.
I barely see Indie and CoD as MS games anyway, let alone Xbox. Heck, CoD would have had next to zero MS input outside the release date.
My point exactly. It makes no sense at all to link those 3 games like "Microsoft" as a whole is "rushing" anything...
