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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been announced as the newest title in the fabled first-person shooter series. As per a recent Xbox Wire post, this installment returns to the numbered format for this covert operations-driven take.
The features coming to the shooter will be fully revealed immediately after the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9, 2024, starting at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST.
A YouTube announcement video followed the announcement, saying “The Truth Lies,” on the eyes of the iconic Mount Rushmore.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
The game’s social channel on X posted a cryptic Cerberus-style head over a black inscribed dollar bill. Call of Duty has told fans to get ready, as “A dark new chapter of the Black Ops franchise begins.”

A dark new chapter of the Black Ops franchise begins. Call of Duty: #BlackOps6 pic.twitter.com/db3lPR0ibI
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) May 23, 2024

As we previously reported, speculation was rife about a Gulf War-themed take on the Black Ops series, with a projected November release date. The post-Xbox Games Showcase event will no doubt confirm our suspicions that a late fall release is on the cards for this title, but it might have a slightly different theme.
Until the Xbox Showcase event, cryptic messaging and rumors will abound about the subject and the era this Call of Duty game will take place in.
The event will follow the double-featured format of Starfield Direct. Xbox Wire says, “We’ll be airing a special deep-dive into the next installment in the beloved Call of Duty franchise—Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has the privilege of being center stage in an event that showcases all of Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios collaborations.
Since the takeover of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has yet to fully roll out all the top-tier titles that they have in a bristling portfolio.
So this could be the first time we see the entire might of Microsoft’s pantheon of gaming titles en mass.
Image: Call of Duty.
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Elon Musk has labeled the new Recall feature unveiled by Microsoft “a black mirror episode.”
Musk’s public rebuke of Microsoft’s Recall feature is particularly significant in the context of the ongoing data security and safety concerns surrounding Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft launched to establish a foothold in the competitive artificial intelligence (AI) device market.
The Recall AI feature progressively takes snapshots of the user’s screen content to create a library to enhance AI responses. This is then sent to the Recall App, which uses these gathered contents to piece together the answers to a user’s AI queries.
The Recall feature has come under some criticism due to the nature of the content it can store and the security permissions around the safety of personal data.
Musk labels Recall a Black Mirror episode
The owner of social platform X, referenced the dark humor and dystopian tone of Charlie Brooker’s popular Netflix series as a jibe toward Microsoft on X:

This is a Black Mirror episode.
Definitely turning this “feature” off. https://t.co/bx1KLqLf67
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2024

He concluded with, “Definitely turning this ‘feature’ off.”
Musk’s public criticism strikes a chord with concerns about the Recall feature of Copilot+ PCs. The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has raised questions about the safeguards in place for Recall regarding personal data security. The British government’s data watchdog has now approached Microsoft for comment.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, told the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern when asked about the feature being ‘creepy’, that “You have to put two things together. This is my computer. This is my Recall, and it’s all being done locally.”
However, the local nature of the data encryption is not a complete safeguard, as personal data will not be hidden or have any permissions that can prevent screenshots from being taken unless it is removed or paused manually.
Microsoft published a security statement saying Recall “will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry.”
Musk’s comments aren’t without bias, as the billionaire has his own AI company. xAI has released Grok -1.5V, Musk’s very own entry into the AI market that can understand documents, respond to prompts, and compute real-world scenarios.
The man on the Forbes Rich List also spent a pretty penny on keeping competitors from poaching highly valued Tesla staff. He said of the AI recruitment sector, that “The talent war for AI is the craziest talent war I’ve ever seen!”
Image: Ideogram.
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