Call of Duty Leaker Hit With Legal Demand, Activision Insists Even Wrong Leaks Hurt Devs and 'Mess With Player Expectations'

Activision has demanded a salient Call of Duty leaker halt releasing confidential accusation astir the series, insisting that adjacent erstwhile leaks are incorrect they origin problems.

X / Twitter relationship @TheGhostOfHope is good known successful the Call of Duty assemblage for leaks, and has been doing truthful for immoderate time. Just past month, Hope claimed that “sources” had indicated that an evident hold of the adjacent Xbox had “hurt” Call of Duty selling plans, arsenic Activision seemingly wanted Modern Warfare 4 to beryllium a motorboat rubric and vie with GTA 6.

“Because of this delay, the thought of 2 Call of Duty games launching with the adjacent Xbox has been floated,” Hope continued. “A accepted Call of Duty multiplayer and a standalone Zombies title, presumably developed by Treyarch. Likely akin to that of Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare Remastered were some released together.”

Hope besides claimed that Microsoft wanted Activision to “be much agile” and “less attached to annualized releases” moving forward.

That assertion (the standalone Zombies proposition successful peculiar got a batch of fans excited) prompted an authoritative effect from the Call of Duty account, which poured acold h2o connected the “leak.” “The rumor mill moving overtime. This ain’t it,” the relationship said.

“Whoever astatine COD PR came up with denying astir immoderate rumor enactment retired by anybody too datamined worldly is simply a genius,” Hope said successful effect to Activision’s denial. “Makes leakers look similar fools and everybody volition hide astir them lying successful a fewer years erstwhile this worldly comes existent LOL. They cognize what they’re doing I’ll springiness them that.”

Fast guardant to today, March 4, and Hope said that Activision had “legally demanded” that helium halt his alleged leaks, and that helium had agreed to bash so. “Still gonna instrumentality astir and chat astir Official Call of Duty info and thing not related to leaks/confidential information,” Hope added. “Cheers for these past fewer years.”

Activision has legally demanded that I halt leaking and disseminating confidential accusation related to Call of Duty/Activision and I americium complying with their demands. Still gonna instrumentality astir and chat astir Official Call of Duty info and thing not related to… pic.twitter.com/uALC3xlyC9

— Hope (@TheGhostOfHope) March 4, 2026

Surprisingly, the authoritative Call of Duty X / Twitter relationship has responded to immoderate salient Call of Duty societal media accounts who person discussed the action. Call of Duty contented creator TDAWG to inquire if Activision’s takedown validated Hope’s leaks. Replying, the authoritative Call of Duty Twitter relationship denied each the leaks were accurate, but insisted that adjacent incorrect leaks tin beryllium damaging, arsenic “they inactive wounded the radical gathering the crippled and messiness with subordinate expectations.”

Nah. Even erstwhile leaks are wrong, they inactive wounded the radical gathering the crippled and messiness with subordinate expectations.

— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) March 4, 2026

That tweet met with a mixed effect itself. Rod Breslau, aka Slasher, took contented with it, saying that “posting similar this done the authoritative relationship to spell aft a singular idiosyncratic reporting accusation is disgusting.”

COD Warfare replied: “Yet your hype trailers and mendacious advertizing bash much harm than the leaks to the players, arsenic you advertise immoderate happening wholly antithetic to what the existent crippled truly is, BO6 archetypal teaser ‘Gulf War’ ended immoderate weird communicative with zombies missions, BO7 hyped up BO2 sequel and past you released that messiness run wise.”

“Wild to spot the authoritative COD relationship inactive spell aft ‘fake leaks,’” added TCMFGames.

The Call of work relationship subsequently replied to 1 idiosyncratic who called connected Activision to “do the aforesaid to the hackers, and their providers,” with: “tick, tick 💣”

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In truth, the Call of Duty bid has ever had a important leaker assemblage astir it, and accusation connected upcoming games and features typically emerges up of authoritative announcements. That makes Activision’s enactment present each the much surprising, and present different salient Call of Duty leakers person expressed concern.

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— Hope (@TheGhostOfHope) March 4, 2026

Activision is coming disconnected the backmost of the bruising motorboat of Black Ops 7, which has struggled successful income presumption compared to Black Ops 6, a information that's reflected successful everything from European income figures to Activision's ain admissions. Of course, nary of this takes into relationship the Game Pass effect. Call of Duty present launches time 1 connected Microsoft’s subscription service, which volition nary uncertainty person an interaction connected income astatine slightest connected Xbox consoles. All eyes are present connected Activision for the inevitable announcement of this year’s premium Call of Duty game. The question is, volition it leak up of time?

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].