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• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is Infinity Ward's first-person shooter, published by Activision and released on Oct 23, 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2. It has a 16-mission campaign set mostly in Korea, multiplayer with 20 launch maps, and DMZ, an extraction mode on the Hajin map; it costs $69.99 (Vault Edition $99.99) and scores 86 on Metacritic for PC.
• Development and RevealCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 was developed by Infinity Ward, led by co-studio heads Jack O'Hara and Mark Grigsby, with Beenox on PC, Digital Legends on Nintendo Switch 2 and other Activision studios in support. Activision revealed it on May 28, 2026 with a trailer of North Korea invading the South, showed it through the From The Ward video series, Fanatics Fest, Call of Duty: NEXT and an August beta, and released it on Oct 23, 2026.
• Open BetaThe Modern Warfare 4 beta ran over two weekends: Early Access for pre-orders from Aug 21 to 25, 2026, and an Open Beta for everyone, Nintendo Switch 2 included, from Aug 28 to Sep 1, 2026. It had six Core maps, Kill Block, Ground War, the campaign mission Entrenched and Warzone Resurgence on Zodiac, with cosmetic rewards to Level 30; its feedback raised the time to kill and every killstreak's cost by one kill.
• Patch NotesThe latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 update is Infinity Ward's Oct 24, 2026 fix list (better Hijack spawns, a Search and Destroy defuse exploit closed, DMZ party and exfil fixes), after the Oct 23 update and the Oct 21 launch patch notes, which kept Weekend 2's time to kill, made UAVs cost 5 kills and moved Tactical Sprint to Blood Rush.
• Reception and ReviewsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 scores 86 on Metacritic for PC (18 critics, Oct 25, 2026) and a Top Critic Average of 85 on OpenCritic with 96% recommending it, the series' best reviews in over a decade. Critics praised the campaign, Kill Block and DMZ's Hajin; players on Steam rate it Very Positive (81%), with complaints about matchmaking and time to kill.
• Season 1 and RoadmapModern Warfare 4 Season 1 starts on Friday, Nov 6, 2026, bringing the first Battle Pass and BlackCell and moving Warzone to Modern Warfare 4 with the Hajin and Zodiac maps. Before it, Shipment arrives on Oct 27 and the Halloween modes Possession and Infected follow that week.
• Steam Player CountSteam has no player count for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 alone, because the game runs inside the shared "Call of Duty" app (1938090) with Warzone, Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7. All Call of Duty on Steam had 217,019 players at 17:01 UTC on Oct 25, 2026, and peaked at 227,622 at MW4's launch, about double Black Ops 7's launch but below Black Ops 6's.
• Warzone IntegrationCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 content reaches Warzone with Season 1 on Nov 6, 2026 (per Activision's roadmap as reported by Insider Gaming): MW4's weapons, level unlocks, camos and progression, the Hajin Battle Royale map and the Zodiac Resurgence map. Operators, skins and Blueprints from Modern Warfare 2 through Black Ops 7 carry forward, and a new toggle shows every other player as an MW4 Operator.
• ZombiesCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has no Zombies mode at launch: Activision lists its modes as Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ. Zombies is in Black Ops 7; in MW4 the mode against AI enemies is DMZ, where other players share the map.

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