The Haunting of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone Season 06
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The Haunting returns to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone launching October 9
The Haunting returns in full force, bringing thrilling content to all three modes inspired by the rich history of horror films. Drop into map variants like Bootown and night versions of Verdansk and Rebirth Island, become the monster in Slasher Deathmatch, and face the undead in Haunted Havoc and Zombie Royale.
Experience all the scares alongside new maps, weapons, and more when The Haunting update goes live in Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone starting October 9.
Multiplayer overview
New Maps
Gravity (Launch): Explore the sprawling compound for the Advanced Technologies and Applications Gravity Division. Soar over foes in the Low Gravity room and fight through the concrete bunkers and outer walkway.
Rig (Launch): Stop over at this truck stop after dusk, where a turned-over rig has slammed into the gas station pumps. Move through the combo Restaurant and Shop and get above the action from the Garage and Motel balcony.
Mothball (Launch): Inspired by the cognitive research facility encountered in the Black Ops 6 Campaign, this Strike map sets combat around the base of the towering golden Statue and the outer wings surrounding it.
Bootown (Launch): Skeletons, spiders, and Jack-o’-Lanterns infiltrate the quiet cul-de-sac at night in this Nuketown map variant featuring a soundscape of menacing laughter and creaking doorways.
New Multiplayer modes
Slasher Deathmatch (Launch): Play as and face off against slashers inspired by some of horror’s most iconic villains in this new hide-and-seek mode. Through four rounds of play, two of the eight survivors are randomly chosen to take on the role of a slasher. Hunt down the remaining survivors who must use their wits to fight back and run down the clock before going down.
Slasher Deathmatch: Jason: Become Jason from Friday the 13, wielding a Machete and moving with an unnerving pace that quickens as he pursues his victims. The final living survivor is awarded the Pickaxe which, can eliminate Jason.
Slasher Deathmatch: Chucky: Slashers gain abilities inspired by Chucky, a serial killer trapped inside a doll’s body. Chase after survivors with the Combat Knife and get back up again with extra lives to stay in the fight. Survivors can fight back with their Shock Charge and Molotov.
Zombies overview
New LTM: Haunted Havoc (Launch)
Enter a relentless nightmare with lurking Mimics, treat-filled Jack-o’-Lanterns, and a forced Rampage Inducer making zombies faster and more aggressive from the start. Additionally, zombie health is reduced until Round 15, but their damage output increases much faster compared to Standard Zombies.
Haunted Havoc will be available across all six maps. Complete the Main Quest to unlock sweet rewards, including a pack of 5 unique GobbleGums, an Ultra GobbleGum, and 15,000 XP per map.
New GobbleGum: Jacked Lanterns
Transform zombie heads into pumpkin heads with the new Jacked Lanterns Whimsical GobbleGum, bringing the Halloween spirit even when you’re not playing Haunted Havoc.
Two New Leaderboard Events
In Death Pit, compete to gather the most Essence in Haunted Havoc. In Extinction Protocol, eliminate the undead with Scorestreaks or while Field Upgrades are active to score points and progress.
Call of Duty: Warzone overview
Verdansk and Rebirth Island Night Variants
Night descends on Verdansk and Rebirth Island. Play night map variants for both, setting the mood for the many zombified battles ahead, including the following limited-time modes:
New LTM: Casual Z (Launch)
Drop into a match against players, bots, and the undead. Regular and armored zombies roam the map, attacking living flesh on sight. Available on Verdansk and Rebirth Island.
New LTM: Zombie Royale (In-Season)
Zombie Royale returns to Verdansk, bringing new zombie abilities and map-wide features into play. In this mode, slain Operators are reanimated as zombies. Work with your remaining squad members to take down enemy squads and seek out special Anti-Virals to get back into the match as a living Operator.
Zombie Abilities: Disguise yourself as a prop and then reveal your identity when the enemy approaches, and tear them to pieces. Plus, disrupt human Operators and their gear with the EMP Blast and become the powerful Mangler with the Mutant Injection.
Portals: Enter portals for rapid traversal. Human Operators who enter a portal will redeploy in the air away from undead foes, while reanimated Operators will teleport to a random human Operator who is not part of their squad.
General overview
New Weapons: In the Battle Pass, unlock the Dresden 9mm SMG and Merrick 556 Assault Rifle. Through in-game events, get wild with the X52 Resonator Special Weapon and the Chainsaw Melee weapon.
New Attachments: Up your fire rate with two new attachments, the GPR91 Double-Barrel Conversion and the GPMG-7 Muzzle Booster.
Events, Ranked Play
Celebrate the season with several in-game events including The Haunting Daily Login, Echoes of the Dead, Chucky Event Pass, and Tapes of Terror. Earn rewards including new seasonal weapons, a new attachment, Operator Skins, Weapon Blueprints, and more.
Plus, prepare for a new season of Ranked Play for Multiplayer and Call of Duty Warzone, including Ranked Play: Battle Royale and Ranked Play: Resurgence. Earn new seasonal rewards based on the highest Rank obtained in the season.
The Haunting Battle Pass, Store content
Purchase the Battle Pass to immediately unlock rewards including, a seasonal 10% Battle Pass XP Boost, the new Jungle Hunter Predator Operator, and more, providing access to over 110 pieces of unlockable content. Get more with BlackCell.
Look for exciting new Store Bundles including, the Tracer Pack: Jason Ultra Skin, Tracer Pack: Predator: Badlands Ultra Skin, Tracer Pack: Fallen Icon The Replacer, Tracer Pack: Halfpipe Havoc Mastercraft, and more.
Free trial
Play Black Ops 6 for free for an entire week from October 9 through 16, including full access to the entire single player Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.
The Haunting launches October 9
Black Ops 6 is available now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Experience the spy action thriller Campaign, the in-depth tactical chaos of Multiplayer, and soak in the gory glory of round-based Zombies experience.
Plus, pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 today so you’re ready to go on its November 14 launch date.
Score the Delightful Split Fiction at a Discount During Prime Big Deal Days
There have been some excellent video game deals to check out during this first day of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale event. One of our favorite video games of this year, Split Fiction, is even on sale right now as part of it. If its been on your radar, there’s no better time to pick it up.
At the moment, the PS5 version of Split Fiction is the only copy that’s part of Prime Big Deal Days, with a Prime-exclusive price of $39.99 (20% off). However, the Switch 2 and Xbox Series X versions are also discounted right now outside of the sale for Prime members, with the former down to $39.99, too, and the latter even lower to $24.98 (50% off).
These are some great prices for such a fantastic game, so head to the links below to add this delightful co-op adventure to your library.
Prime Big Deal Days: Save on Split Fiction
For both the Xbox Series X and Switch 2 copies, these prices mark new lows for them, which is great news for those who have been waiting to pick them up. The PS5 version’s lowest-ever price is $34.99, but its current price is still very close to it and well worth taking advantage of while it’s still live during the sale.
Outside of these great prices, this game is absolutely worth it to add to your library. We gave it a 9/10 back when it was released in our review, with IGN’s Luke Reilly calling it, “a victory of imagination and restraint in equal measure. Hazelight may have been rewriting the co-op rule book for a decade now, but Split Fiction is a new chapter that you (and a partner) cannot miss.” We even consider it one of the best video games of this year, so you can feel content knowing you’re picking up something worthwhile.
This deal is just one of many great ones to pop up during Prime Big Deal Days. Check out our full breakdown of the video game deals for October Prime Day to see even more of the top discounts available today. The sale only runs through tomorrow, October 8, so act fast to pick up the items that catch your eye.
More Video Games on Sale at Amazon
Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.
The Best Prime Big Deal Days Discounts for Magic: The Gathering Fans That You Can Buy Now
Magic: The Gathering is gearing up for a big 2026 with sets including Star Trek and more Marvel, but Amazon’s Prime Day Big Deals have plenty of savings to help build (or kickstart) your collection.
The retailer has been running discounts over the last couple of weeks, but now that we’re into the madness of Prime Day, we’ve rounded up the best around.
The Best Magic: The Gathering Deals For Prime Day
Kicking off with Commander (Magic’s most popular format), there are a huge number of savings to be had across Final Fantasy, Fallout, and plenty, plenty more.
The Revival Trance deck from Final Fantasy 6 is half price, while the Final Fantasy 14 Scions & Spellcraft deck is under $40, too.
You can buy a bundle of all four Fallout Commander decks for $144.99 (you’d pay half of that for the Mutant Menace precon alone). You can also buy Hail Caesar, Scrappy Survivors, and Science for less than $45 each.
Missed out on the Lord of the Rings set? The (very, very good) Riders of Rohan Commander Deck is under $40 right now, and is great for newcomers, as is Death Toll which is under $35.
One deck with a lot of complexity is the Tricky Terrain deck from Modern Horizons 3, which is $42.99 instead of $70 right now, and involves shapeshifting and changing the types of your lands.
In terms of booster boxes, you can save 24% on Spider-Man, but, considering it was marked up anyway, you’re not technically saving. There are also deals on the horror-themed Duskmourn, sci-fi Edge of Eternities, and cowboy-filled Outlaws of Thunder Junction sets.
Finally, if you’re looking to build your own decks, the Land Station is just $14.99 right now. It includes 400 basic lands (80 of each type) to help you create your next game-winning deck.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He’s a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife’s dismay.
FuturLab’s PowerWash Simulator 2 Gets A Switch 2 Release Date
Blasting the dirt off your console later this month!
As we reported not long ago, PowerWash Simulator 2, the cunningly-named sequel to PowerWash Simulator, is winging its way to Switch 2, which is a very good thing indeed given how popular the first outing was.
Now, the folks over at Futurlab have announced that their cleaning sim sequel will release on 23rd October 2025. Hey, that’s this month!
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
World of Warcraft Legion Remix is Live Now for a Limited Time
World of Warcraft Legion Remix is Live Now for a Limited Time
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PowerWash Simulator 2 will release October 23, and here’s a trailer to mock you for enjoying cleaning games
The world is insufficiently clean and sparkly, so here comes Futurlab with Powerwash Simulator 2. The floor-mopping bonanza will release on 23rd October, a few short weeks from now. The release date announcement accompanies one of those satirical “corporate training” videos, commonly used by videogame creators to sneer indirectly at the sad unfortunates trapped in their Skinner boxes.
The trailer comments of the sequel’s new cleaning tools, for example, that “it all does basically the same thing, but it gives you a false sense of progression, even though you’ve really achieved nothing”. Fine then, Futurlab. I was looking forward to your glorified adult colouring book. I was modestly anticipating the opportunity to absent myself from my personal squalor and while away some hours in your pseudo-therapeutic tribute to Mr Muscles. But now that you’ve ripped off the mask and explicitly told me that I’m an addled hamster, deserving only of contempt, I guess I’ll buy this game about pissing on people instead.
The Predator Is Coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone — but Fans Wish They Could Carry Him Forward Into Black Ops 7
The Predator is coming back to Call of Duty, 11 years after he appeared in 2014’s Call of Duty: Ghost.
Activision confirmed the arrival of the Predator in Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 6 as part of the seasonal Haunting event on October 9. It’s a well-timed crossover that coincides with the release of Dan Trachtenberg’s upcoming Predator: Badlands movie.
The image and trailer below give us a look at the Predator we can expect in Call of Duty later this week. Season 6 launches shortly after the ongoing Black Ops 7 beta ends on October 9 (it just got extended by 24 hours).
It’s worth noting that Black Ops 6 cosmetics do not carry forward into Black Ops 7 (well, almost all of them do not). So you won’t see Predators running around when Black Ops 7 launches in November. The cosmetic will remain playable in battle royale Warzone, however.
Call of Duty’s foray into goofy skins territory is well-documented, although recent releases have certainly amped up the conversation around them. With the likes of Beavis and Butt-Head and American Dad hitting the game this year shortly after weed-obsessed bundles starring Seth Rogen, some fans said they’d had enough of what they called the ‘Fortnite-ification’ of their beloved Call of Duty, and pleaded with publisher Activision to return to its mil-sim roots.
Then, last month, Activision shocked the Call of Duty community when it confirmed that Operators, Operator Skins, and Weapons from Black Ops 6 would no longer carry forward into Black Ops 7. This came as a big surprise to players who had expected content they’d bought for Black Ops 6 to carry forward, as it has done with previous entries. Explaining the decision, Activision said Black Ops 7 “needs to feel authentic to Call of Duty and its setting.”
There’s a positive reaction to the Predator in Black Ops 6, although some are saying they wish he was coming to Black Ops 7 instead. “See I’m perfectly fine when COD does collabs with other mature IPs,” said redditor blackviking147. “The Mil-spawn skin is still the only time I was genuinely interested in finishing a COD battle pass and I use it in Warzone to this day ‘cause it’s voiced by Keith David.
“Predator, Rambo, Die Hard, Spawn all of those were amazing collabs that didn’t destroy the game’s identity ‘cause they’re movie properties from around the game’s time period and or decked out in milsim gear so it stays in the aesthetic.”
“Would have been great to use this skin in Blops 7,” added LaylaLegion. “Oh well. Guess I’ll have to just rebuy all my BP skins for the third time because SOME PEOPLE would rather do that than get over seeing a ninja turtle in the game.”
This comment touches on the ongoing debate about Activision’s decision to kill carry forward for Black Ops 7. Despite the online chatter, there are a number of Call of Duty players who have expressed frustration that their goofy skins won’t carry forward into Black Ops 7, lamenting the fact they won’t get the amount of use out of their purchases that they’d expected. Now, if these players move on to Black Ops 7, they will have to leave those expensive virtual items behind — including the Predator.
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
Here’s a deal post about the Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL being £45 / $40 off, typed on my Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL
It’s been over a year since I adopted the Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL as my daily keyboard, and here it is, still parked on my desk, ready and willing for me to bash out some nonsense about Titanfall or whatever. It’s also what I’m using you inform you that you can get one of your very own, for less, as the G515 is currently on sale both inside and out of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event.
Civilization 7 Has Crashed to Less Than $15 on Xbox for October Prime Day
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale event has officially kicked off for Prime members, and there’s already so much to look through. In particular, quite a few video game deals have popped up during the sale event, and this discount on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII for Xbox Series X was one that immediately caught our eye (see it here at Amazon).
Save 81% on Civilization 7 for Xbox Series X
Right now, Prime members can save a whopping 81% (yes, you read that correctly) on Civilization VII for Xbox Series X, which has dropped its price from $69.99 to $13.25.
This is the lowest price it’s ever been – in comparison to its lowest-ever price outside of Prime-exclusive sale events like this one – so now is as good a time as any to grab it for your library.
If you’re on the fence about picking it up, our review of Civilization 7 from Leana Hafer said it has, “improved warfare and diplomacy, a bit of added narrative flair, as well as mostly gorgeous graphics and sound.” And at this price? It’s a hard discount to ignore.
This isn’t the only video game deal to cross our radar, though. If you’re looking to pick up PlayStation 5 games instead, there’s a selection of PS5 games discounted right now at Amazon that are worth checking out. The sales even include Death Stranding 2 at its lowest price yet, which is definitely worth taking advantage of.
Prime Big Deal Days runs through tomorrow, October 8, so there’s still plenty of time to jump on the discounts that catch your eye. It’s also worth checking out our big Prime Big Deal Days post to see what other offers have jumped out during this sale event so far, so you can stock up on the items that interest you.
Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.