This doesn’t really come as a surprise, we’re getting a new Call of Duty every year so this make sense, According to Treyarch senior animator David Kim Call of Duty 7 (which is rumored to be set in Vietnam) is already under development, and yes, it’s indeed coming from Treyarch. David Kim reveals the following in his LinkedIn profile:

“I am currently on my second title as a senior animator in the games industry with Activision / Treyarch on Call Of Duty 7. Previous to that I specialized as a previsualization artist for various productions.”

Of course, his use of “Call of Duty 7″ here would be a temporary placeholder name for whatever game they’re working on. Quite possibly, CoD7 could drop the whole CoD branding, just like how Infinity Ward took it out of Modern Warfare 2.

World at War senior producer Noah Heller of Treyarch stated last year, “I can’t say that there won’t ever be a WWII Call of Duty game again,” suggesting that World War 2 might be on the shelf for now–but he also raised several promising unexplored areas of WW2.

Obviously no platforms are known yet but the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are safe bets considering the franchise’s history on the platforms and recent Activision activity.

The next Call of Duty entry will come from Infinity Ward with Modern Warfare 2–originally referred to as Call of Duty 6–this fall, So as I said, Treyarch doing CoD7 is something we expected. Last year, Activision’s CEO said they were going for a “leapfrog strategy” of alternating between Treyarch and Infinity Ward for their CoD franchise. to make it more clear for you here’s how it’s been going :

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Infinity Ward
• Call of Duty: World at War - Treyarch
• Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward
• Call of Duty 7 - Treyarch

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