The publication date of Black Ops 7 is leaked, and there may be no good news

The leaky season for Call of Duty is in full swing, and while Black Ops 7 is not completely unveiled for another month, we have our first juicy messages about the game. According to a serious delicious in the CoD community, Black Ops 7 has a provisional publication date that may not be the best news for the entire game as a whole.

In the following you can see the leaked publication date for Black Ops 7 and why a catastrophe can spell before the game even starts.

The tasty that spilled the beans about the potential publication date for BO7 is @theghostofhope on Twitter/X. If you are wired to the CoD community on social media, you have probably seen leaks or reports from this user beforehand. They are extremely reliable and rarely miss one of their leaks, but of course the news is still unofficial. So take it with the salt you want.

To theghostofhope, Black OPS 7 is scheduled to start on Friday, November 14, 2025.

If this publication date seems to be a little off, you know your cod history clearly. If this publication date is, it would be the latest Call of Duty start in the history of the franchise. In recent years we have seen that games came out in the third week of October, while other games were released at the beginning of November.

We have to go back to 2020 and Black Ops Cold to find a publication date near the leaked BO7. The cold war was launched on November 13, 2020, but the Covid 19 pandemic probably played a massive role in this late publication date. The only other time was a Call of Duty game released that Black Ops 3, which was also introduced on November 13, 2015, at the end of November.

This late publication date for BO7 corresponds to another leak from Theghostofhope that the next event will take place at the end of September with a multiplayer beta in October. Since the beta ends near mid -October, it is not a shock that we may have to wait a month before we see the full publication.

While a potential publication date is good news for the community, the date itself is associated with a certain fear.

As Theghostofhops emphasized, this means that the game is usually released later in the year a Call of Duty title that is not as well packaged or ended as a game that is previously published. We have seen this with Black Ops Cold, because this game was started with only 9 multiplayer cards, a Barebones zombies mode and a variety of problems in the game. While Covid-19 played absolutely a role, the later publication date was a good indication of how Activision saw the game.

One of the leaked Bo7 screenshots. Image about Activision

Of course, a later publication date does not always mean that a Call of Duty game is not finished or polished. Black Ops 3 was probably the most complete game in the history of the franchise at the start and published with first-class multiplayer and zombies modes, an overwhelming amount of content and a complete campaign (even if the story was bad).

As we all know, the Call of Duty we had in 2015 is not the Call of Duty, which we had in 2025. The franchise is fundamentally different in today's age, and a later publication date of Black Ops 7 would probably mean that the game will be missing some content at the start. According to reports, BO7 is a imitator of the latest MW3, which was originally designed as a DLC for MW2 in 2023. BO7 is reported to contain a ton of remastered cards made of Black Ops 2.

All in all, we will not know anything about what a potential publication date on November 14th will mean for BO7 until we see the full game. We will receive the global revelation trailer at Gamescom in August and then see the multiplayer at COD in September.