Update 8:31 AM AEST: It did, in fact, later appear on the Xbox News Wire . Original story continues below. — David.
Anyone paying attention would already have guessed that the recently announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 would be coming to Game Pass on release. However, this has never been officially confirmed by Microsoft, owners of both Xbox and CoD publishers Activision, until today, by accident. It was The Verge’s Tom Warren who spotted this first, tweeting an image of the notification sent out to some mobile app users that excitedly declared, “ Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is coming to Game Pass on day one later this year!” the Xbox Game Pass app on iOS / Android is notifying people that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 “is coming to Game Pass on day one later this year!” it looks like an announcement is due today 👀 pic.
twitter.com/FBRteX5Nkl — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 28, 2024 This then linked to a dead page on Xbox Wire, but it is highly suggestive that Microsoft was planning to make the announcement at some point later today (their penchant is for 10 a.m.
ET declarations (That’s 12 AM AEST for us. — David) ). Someone must have pressed a Bad Button.
COD Blops 6 is getting its own show after the Xbox Games Showcase section of Summer Game Fest on June 9, in which we’ll likely see an awful lot of cutscenes and about 13 seconds of in-game footage (during which the player is essentially stuck in a cutscene, as this makes up 95 per cent of all the series’ s.
