Call of Duty: Warzone released way back in 2020, when the world was a different time, and Activision’s new FPS battle royale was king. Now, in 2026, six years on, and arguably past its peak, we might be testing Warzone in beta form.
I can’t think of too many instances where a game has had its first beta six years after launch, but this is looking like the case for Call of Duty: Warzone ahead of Modern Warfare 4.
There’s a sense that Activision can bounce back with MW4, but don’t forget about Warzone.
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The word ‘Verdansk’ will immediately show you who the Warzone fans are. That 2020 to 2022 period of CoD’s go-to battle royale game was untouchable, in an era of other BR juggernauts: Fortnite and Apex Legends.
2025 was the year of the Verdansk comeback, and the BR experienced a much-needed boom.
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However, popularity has faded again, and ‘The Call of Duty Studio Community Teams’ X page is teasing a first-ever occurrence for Warzone—a beta.
On X, Detonated posted about a new Resurgence map being spotted in an MW4 ‘From The Ward’ video.
This instantly led to fan theories and speculation about incoming Warzone content.
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Step forward CallofDutyCM to add fuel to the fire about the map with a couple of comments: “Find out in….beta? and “See what we are cooking in beta.”
In this writer’s eyes, this feels like a clever ploy to get people playing and talking about Warzone again, more than it is to test a new map, as the devs have clearly shown this hasn’t been an issue for the last half a decade.
We might need to prepare for the next big Warzone craze.
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