In case you'd somehow forgotten that Activision is now part of the Microsoft machine, here's a stark (although not entirely unsurprising) reminder: The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta is set to kick off in August, and for the first time in many years we're all jumping into it together.
It's become a genuine tradition over the years, going back at least as far as Black Ops 3 in 2015: Whatever Call of Duty game is in the rotation announces a multiplayer beta test of some sort of other, and the opening weekend is exclusive to the PlayStation, while the rest of us get to tag along the following weekend. It's never really bothered me—I'm not enough of a Call of Duty fan to get worked up over it—and pretty much everyone else just got used to it.
