Call of Duty: Black Ops 5 will be released in 2020 and will be made by Treyarch

Activision would have chosen Treyarch for 2020 for the development of a new Call of Duty game, rumored to have Black Ops 5 on the schedule. The decision is striking because initially another studio would develop the Call of Duty game.

Normally, for the development of the Call of Duty games, Activision rotates between game studios every three years, and in 2020 it would have been Raven and Sledgehammer’s turn. However, according to Kotaku sources, Activision has reversed that decision and has informed developers that the two are no longer in charge of the project. Instead, Treyarch is assigned the project, the development studio behind the Black Ops games.

The decision was allegedly made after internal squabbles at Raven and Sledgehammer, in which Sledgehammer co-founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield were fired. Activision is said to have intervened by putting Treyarch in charge of the project, then giving Raven and Sledgehammer a supporting role in the development of the Call of Duty game, which is due for release in 2020. Specifically, they should be working on a story mode for Black Ops 5 that Treyarch can incorporate into the game.

Within Treyarch, according to Kotaku’s sources, there would also be no undivided positivity about developing Black Ops 5 in 2020. Normally the company would have been given an extra year for development, but now the game is due to be released in 2020. employees within the company would already be put under considerable pressure to accelerate development.

A Call of Duty game should also be released this year, and it is being developed by Infinity Ward. It is probably a version in the Modern Warfare series.