
What you need to know
- In mid-August, Activision and the development teams working on Call of Duty announced the COD HQ launcher would undergo significant updates leading up to and following the launch of Black Ops 6.
- The first changes to the Call of Duty launcher were released later in August as part of the Season 5 Reloaded update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in preparation for the Black Ops 6 beta.
- Speaking at COD Next, Yale Miller of Treyarch said all the Call of Duty studios were "on a journey" to work on a better data management initiative for the franchise's launcher, but that "currently, we're not there."
- A new user interface is set to roll out in mid-October ahead of the October 25 release of Black Ops 6.