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Next year's Call of Duty game will not be part of any of the franchise's existing sub-series. In an interview with The Game Business , Activision confirmed it's finally ready to create a new sub-series.

"We've already kind of stated that a future title is going to be a new sub-franchise and we've already kind of laid the groundwork there," Activision chief marketing officer Tyler Bahl said.

This year's game, Modern Warfare 4, is the final chapter in one of Call of Duty's most popular sub-franchises, which followed on from 2025's Black Ops 7 , the 7th entry in the other popular Call of Duty sub-series.

Activision announced last year it's no longer going to release two back-to-back games form the Modern Warfare or Black Ops sub-series , and this presumably goes for future sub-series that get created.…