Xbox's next Call of Duty title has just kicked off Gamescom Opening Night Live, with Black Ops 7 finally getting a formal release date. The series' upcoming futuristic entry launches on Xbox Game Pass on November 14th - and we have fresh details of a free beta as well.

Call of Duty fans are in for a treat, as Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is shaping up to be, frankly, weird. Early reveals have shown a potentially mind-bending campaign where our characters appear to be fighting their way through some kind of virtual world. It's an odd one, and you won't need to wait long to jump in.

The team does promise that the Black Ops 7 campaign will have a satisfying ending. Set in 2035, this game will be the ultimate conclusion of story threads set up in both Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 6. The four playable characters are familiar faces in David Mason, Mike Harper, and Eric Samuels, but one newcomer to the series is Leilani Tuuola.

Black Ops 7 has some serious star power behind it, with Milo Ventimiglia and Kiernan Shipka starring in some stunning new images.

An insider leaks the release date for Black Ops 7, reveals that it will not be released on Nintendo Switch 2 at launch: the game will not increase in price.

What has got another confirmation, though, is that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is releasing on November 14 this year. If that date sounds familiar, we reported just the other week that Billbilkun said the same – that came after another prominent leaker offered the same date, too.