Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
2023 video game
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| 2025 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III won the Sound Design of the Year award at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards. |
| 2025 | Nominations pending for multiple Game Audio Network Guild Awards, including Audio of the Year, Best Audio Mix, Best Cinematic & Cutscene Audio, Best Ensemble Cast Performance, Best Game Foley, Best Game Trailer Audio, Best Performance for Claudia Doumit as Farah, Dialogue of the Year, and Sound Design of the Year |
| 2024 | The game was nominated for Best Original Video Game Score at the Ivor Novello Awards |
| 2024 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was nominated for Online Game of the Year at the 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards |
| 2024 | The game received nominations for Audio Achievement and Multiplayer categories at the 20th British Academy Games Awards |
| October 2024 | Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members granted ability to stream the game via Xbox Cloud Gaming. |
| August 2024 | OpTic Texas, the 2024 CDL champions, are eliminated in the semi-finals by the eventual tournament champions, Atlanta FaZe. |
| August 18 2024 | Atlanta FaZe defeats 100 Thieves (representing the Los Angeles Thieves) in the tournament final, winning $600,000 in prize money. |
| August 16 2024 | Continuation of the Group stage for the 2024 Esports World Cup Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III tournament, featuring matches across Groups A, B, C, and D. |
| August 15 2024 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III tournament begins at the 2024 Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, featuring sixteen teams including eleven Call of Duty League teams, four Challengers teams, and one MENA qualifier team. |
| July 2024 | Championship Weekend held, which determined special seeding for the 2024 Esports World Cup Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III tournament, with 7 teams receiving preferential placement based on their performance. |
| July 2024 | Modern Warfare III made available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers. |
| June 13 2024 | Original roster acquisition deadline for Call of Duty titles, which was subsequently extended by two weeks due to the game announcements. |
| June 12 2024 | Warzone and Modern Warfare III were revealed as the twentieth and twenty-first game titles to be featured at the Esports World Cup. |
| 2023 | The game reintroduces the classic 'red dot' minimap and allows map voting in multiplayer lobbies, returning to gameplay mechanics from earlier Call of Duty titles. |
| 2023 | In Japan, the PlayStation 5 version achieved fourth place in retail game sales during its first week of release, selling 22,132 physical copies. |
| 2023 | Became the second best-selling game of 2023 in the United States, ranking behind Hogwarts Legacy. |
| 2023 | Implemented AI-powered moderation system to monitor and immediately report toxic behavior during in-game interactions, enhancing player experience and community standards. |
| 2023 | Launched an open world Zombies mode developed collaboratively by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games, structured similarly to Warzone's DMZ mode with up to 24 players exploring a large map and completing objectives. |
| 2023 | Introduced a new multiplayer game mode called 'Cutthroat', where three teams of three players compete against each other, adding a novel competitive dynamic to the game. |
| November 2023 | Task Force 141 discovers Makarov's plan to destroy the Channel Tunnel and attempts to stop him, resulting in Soap's death at Makarov's hands. |
| November 2023 | Task Force 141 prevents Konni from destroying the Gora Dam in Verdansk and leads an assault on a Konni base in Urzikstan. |
| November 2023 | Price, with Laswell's aid, assassinates General Shepherd in his office as retribution for his actions in Mexico. |
| November 2023 | Makarov destroys a Kastovian airliner using a vest bomb forced onto a former ULF fighter, which Farah and Alex quickly cover up to prevent international tensions. |
| November 2023 | Konni Group assaults a port in Urzikstan, stealing ballistic missiles from Shadow Company, with Farah Karim managing to place trackers on the stolen missiles. |
| November 2023 | Task Force 141 interrogates Milena Romanova, Makarov's financier, and apprehends Konni operative Andrei Nolan in Saint Petersburg, leading to the capture of General Shepherd. |
| November 2023 | Task Force 141, led by John Price, attempts to prevent Konni from securing nuclear material at an abandoned nuclear power plant, but Makarov escapes with chemical weapons materials. |
| November 2023 | Modern Warfare III topped the sales charts in the United Kingdom for the month of November, despite sales being 38% lower compared to its predecessor Modern Warfare II's launch period. |
| November 2023 | Konni Group operatives raid the Zordaya Prison Complex in Verdansk, Kastovia, freeing Vladimir Makarov. Hours later, they assault a port in Urzikstan and steal ballistic missiles from Shadow Company. |
| November 10 2023 | Rapper 21 Savage released the promotional song 'Call Me Revenge' featuring singer d4vd for the game |
| November 10 2023 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S platforms. |
| November 2 2023 | Early access campaign release for digital pre-order customers across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S platforms. |
| November 2 2023 | Campaign released in early access for all digital pre-orders. |
| October 2023 | Saudi Arabia announced the inaugural Esports World Cup as the successor to Gamers8, developed as part of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 economic diversification plan. |
| October 2023 | A public beta for the game was held, along with a showcase event to promote the upcoming release. |
| August 2023 | Game was officially revealed to the public during an official showcase event. |
| August 17 2023 | Full game reveal occurred inside a Call of Duty: Warzone event, concluding with a reveal trailer. Pre-orders opened, offering early campaign access and new operator skins. |
| August 8 2023 | Activision confirmed that Modern Warfare II operators, weapons, and cosmetic items would carry over into Modern Warfare III, releasing a detailed blog post about the transfer. |
| August 7 2023 | Activision posted a teaser trailer confirming the title of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, and simultaneously launched a mysterious interactive phone number campaign that would send anonymous messages to participants. |
| July 24 2023 | Game's key art was leaked through a Monster Energy promotion, featuring Captain Price, which was later confirmed real by Activision. |
| July 17 2023 | Internal alpha build of Modern Warfare III leaked, revealing the 'red dot' minimap, War mode, and new perks. |
| February 2023 | Jansen travels to Liberty Falls, West Virginia, investigating a Dark Aether incursion that occurred in February 1991. |
| February 2023 | First series of leaks about the game begin to emerge in early-to-mid 2023. |
| 2022 | Treyarch was assigned to develop the Zombies mode for Modern Warfare III, marking the first Modern Warfare title to include this game mode. |
| July 2022 | Activision shelves Sledgehammer Games' initial sequel project and instead assigns them to create an expansion pack for Modern Warfare II. |
| July 2022 | Activision changed plans and tasked Sledgehammer Games with creating a full sequel to Modern Warfare II, giving the studio approximately sixteen months to develop the game. |
| June 2022 | Activision initially planned an expansion pack for Modern Warfare II featuring a smaller-scale single-player campaign set in Mexico and new multiplayer content. |
| 2021 | Sledgehammer Games completed development of Call of Duty: Vanguard and initially began early work on a potential Advanced Warfare sequel. |
| 2021 | Russian arms dealer Victor Zakhaev and ex-NZDF operative Jack Fletcher lead an assault on police forces in Zaravan, Urzikstan, recovering two vials of Aetherium and inadvertently creating a zombie outbreak by throwing a vial at pursuing officers. |
| 2021 | Sledgehammer Games completed development of Call of Duty: Vanguard and was initially assigned by Activision to develop an expansion pack for Modern Warfare II. |
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