Modern Warfare 4 official screenshot: soldiers advance through a burning city street at night during the invasion's opening hours

Infinity Ward · Activision · October 23, 2026

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

War erupts on the Korean Peninsula

The 2026 entry in the Modern Warfare sub-series: North Korea launches a full invasion of the South, and a new recruit, Private Park, fights alongside Captain Price in a campaign that spans the peninsula, New York, Paris and Mumbai. Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and, for the first time in the sub-series, a native Switch 2 version. Digital pre-orders get campaign early access from October 16. This wiki tracks what Activision has actually confirmed, and is just as clear about what it has not.

Launches Oct 23, 2026Campaign EA on Oct 16No PS4 · No Xbox OneSwitch 2 Native$69.99 · Vault $99.99Not on Game Pass at Launch

Start with the Release Date Wishlist on Steam

Release Date

October 23, 2026

Campaign Early Access

October 16, 2026

Platforms

PS5 · XSX|S · PC · Switch 2

Standard Edition

$69.99

Watch the official trailers

All five are on the official Call of Duty channel; titles verified against the YouTube API. The Campaign Trailer plays muted on load; click a title below to switch, or open the age-restricted Reveal Trailer on YouTube.

Full inventory with notes: Trailers & Videos · Ten official stills, captioned: Screenshot Gallery

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Next Call of Duty

Why the answer is Modern Warfare 4, and which rumors were wrong

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Release Date

October 23, 2026, plus the October 16 early access window

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Platforms

Four platforms, and the two that got left behind

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Price

$69.99 standard, the loyalty discount, regional pricing

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Editions

Standard vs Vault Edition, item by item

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Campaign

The Korean Peninsula story and its named missions

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DMZ

Hajin exclusion zone, persistence, dynamic objectives

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COD Timeline

Every mainline release since 2003, ending here

Ballistic Authority

Infinity Ward calls its 2026 gunplay overhaul Ballistic Authority. These are the pieces the official multiplayer blog actually named, not reviewer impressions.

No bloom, everHipfire bullets travel along the muzzle direction. The random spread cone that made previous Modern Warfare games feel lottery-based at close range is gone.
Weapon Framing & VFX MaskingNew camera and effect logic keeps the weapon readable when it matters and out of the way when it doesn't, so the screen stays legible during fights.
PC Enhanced FOVA reworked depth-of-field pipeline, an expanded PC field-of-view option, and environments built from real-world scanned materials.
Gunny, the build optimizerName a range (short, medium or long) and Gunny fits an attachment set for you. The 28 Apex Attachments at launch do not occupy attachment slots.

Multiplayer systems in full → · The weapon library →

The launch sandbox, in numbers

Every figure below comes from the official multiplayer blog of August 21, 2026. The beta you may have played was a subset of this: 22 weapons and 19 Apex attachments.

Weapons at Launch

33 (24 / 8 / 1)

Standard Attachments

500+

Killstreaks

Perks (Pick 3)

Movement, expanded. Mantle Slide, Mantle Momentum and Mantle Steering, Supine Slide, Pipe Climb and Fast Pipe Slide, Hang Shimmy, Hang Lean and Climbing Jump. Every one is officially named, not datamined.
Kill Block is a mode and a map. The modular Westbridge Training Facility reassembles into 500+ layouts, carrying Gunfight 3v3, 10v10 and classic-name elements like Crash and Highrise placed at random.
Three new launch modes. Counter Attack, Inflation and Hijack join the Respawn rotation, and Classic Prestige returns alongside the unlock-keeping Regular Prestige.
Ground War gets Combat Outpost. Build an outpost to convert resources, with vehicles, infantry and air killstreaks on two dedicated maps: Imjin Farmland and Wolves Stadium.

Multiplayer overview → · The weapon library → · What the beta already proved →

Inside the DMZ: the FOB loop

The DMZ rebuild centers on the Hajin Exclusion Zone, a triangle at the Russian border where the campaign's events left abandoned military tech. Your forward operating base is the loop everything hangs on.

StashWalletGunsmith3D PrinterWeapon VendorFiring RangeBoss Board

Three ways to play a raid. Story Missions for the narrative thread, Dynamic Operations for shifting objectives (sabotage, rescue, HVT elimination, intel theft), and Side Ops with free roam when you just want to loot.
A world that changes on its own. Storms, fog and overcast alter visibility and open or close routes, while emergent enemies and escalating threats keep the map from settling into a script.
PvP that stays legible. Bounties, dog tags, a Notoriety system and Proximity Chat. Players on kill streaks get marked and hunted.
Progress that is yours alone. All DMZ XP feeds a separate DMZ Rank, with per-operator traits and dedicated Active Duty slots.

The full DMZ breakdown → · How the modes fit together →

Every mode, labelled

What Activision has confirmed for launch, mode by mode. The zombies row exists because people keep asking, and the honest answer is still no.

Mode	Status	What we know
Campaign	Official	The Korean Peninsula invasion story, told through Private Park and Captain Price. Missions in New York, Paris and Mumbai are named; the playable Entrenched task ran in the beta. Early access starts October 16 for digital pre-orders.
Multiplayer	Official	12 six-vs-six maps at launch, the Ballistic Authority gunplay overhaul, Kill Block with 500+ build configurations, and Ground War. map list
DMZ	Official	Rebuilt around the Hajin exclusion zone: persistent progression and dynamic objectives replace the old extraction loop. what changed
Warzone	Partial	A new Hajin map ties into the DMZ rebuild. Specifics beyond that are thin, and we label them accordingly.
Zombies	Not announced	Zombies appears in no official mode list for Modern Warfare 4. If that changes, this row changes the same day.

The full modes overview → · Multiplayer & the 12 maps → · The DMZ rebuild →

One name, three games

Search \"mw4\" and you can land on three different games depending on who is answering. Most coverage picks one meaning and ignores the rest; pages that confuse them are the reason a third of the questions we see exist. Here is the disambiguation in one place.

MW4 = 2026The game this wiki covers: Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, announced May 28, 2026, launching October 23, 2026. Not a remake of anything.

MW4 = CoD4, 2007For many searchers, \"MW4\" means Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the 2007 original and its 2016 remaster. Its patch history and key codes have nothing to do with this launch.

MW4 = MW2019Others mean the 2019 reboot that restarted the sub-series numbering and led to this one. Its weapon and setting legacy continues here.

Full comparison: Modern Warfare 4 vs CoD4 vs MW2019 →

Modern Warfare 4 FAQ

What is the next Call of Duty game?

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Activision announced it on May 28, 2026, and it launches on October 23, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam, Battle.net and Xbox PC) and Nintendo Switch 2. Infinity Ward leads development.

Is Modern Warfare 4 confirmed?

Yes. It was officially announced on May 28, 2026, the multiplayer systems were detailed in August 2026, and a public beta ran across two weekends ending September 1, 2026, including a Switch 2 test. The only reasonable doubt left is about details, not existence.

Will MW4 be on Game Pass?

Not at launch. Xbox has told Game Pass subscribers directly, via push notification, that Game Pass availability starts Holiday 2027, roughly a year after the October 23, 2026 launch. That follows Microsoft's April 2026 policy change for the franchise. If you want the game on day one, you buy it.

Does Modern Warfare 4 have zombies?

Zombies has not been announced. The official mode list covers campaign, multiplayer, DMZ and Warzone. If Activision reveals a zombies mode, this wiki will document it then; until that happens, every claim of confirmed zombies is noise.

Is MW4 on PS4 or Xbox One?

No. Modern Warfare 4 ships on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Switch 2 only. There is no PlayStation 4 or Xbox One version, which makes this the first mainline Call of Duty to skip last-gen consoles entirely.