Activision Blizzard is delaying a new call of duty title that had been scheduled to release in 2023. Activision Blizzard has delayed a new classic that will apparently change next year.

Activision is pushing the game after last year’s annual release, call of Duty: vanguard, did n’t meet expectations. That led executives to’suspect that it had been cannibalized by the previous year’s game,’ Schreier says.

Activision has already announced that it will be a sequel to 2019’s call of Duty: Modern Warfare. There’s also a new free-to-play online game that will be available in 2023 as well.

A new premium call of duty has come out every year since 2005. Next year’s offerings will include a new free-to-play game and content for warzone 2 and 2022’s modern warfare.

Activision spokesperson Neil Wood said reports of anything otherwise are incorrect.’we look forward to sharing more details when the time is right,’ he added.

Both are scheduled to come out this year. It’s unclear if the new warzone is a full sequel or a big update to the existing game both will be powered by a new engine.

Microsoft announced in January it had struck a deal to acquire the company for $ 68.7 billion. The deal is n’t expected to close until sometime in Microsoft’s fiscal year 2023, which begins in July.