Activision Confirms Existence of Call of Duty 2021

The good news is that the studio has since started to rebuild itself, welcoming as many as 150 new developers in 2020.

So, does this mean that Sledgehammer Games is working on Call of Duty 2021? Not exactly.

For now, all we can do is speculate.

Yes. There will be a Call of Duty 2021 game.

Activision has finally confirmed the existence of the follow-up to Black Ops Cold War in a recent investor call, with company executives stating that Activision is working on launching a new "premium experience" to the franchise later in 2021.

With the 3-year cycle between Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch, and Infinity Ward now broken though, we don't have any idea who is going to work on Call of Duty 2021.

Activision themselves also did not announce anything specific outside of confirming that Call of Duty 2021 does indeed exist.

If we were to go by their usual timeline, we probably don't have to wait too long to find out. Activision usually releases a trailer for their Call of Duty games sometime in May, with the sole exception being Black Ops Cold War (August), with the game launching some five to six months later.

While so much remains uncertain, what we can expect is for Call of Duty 2021 to run in parallel to Call of Duty: Warzone.

This, along with the game's existence, was confirmed by Activision's President, Rob Kostich, in the same investor call, referring to Warzone's continued success as "central" to the franchise's future.