Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the follow up to 2009's best selling video game, will release on 8 November this year, according to online retailers
Online retailer Amazon have listed the 8 November 2011 release date on their website and have sent customers an e-mail encouraging pre-orders for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
Publisher Activision are yet to officially reveal the release date for Modern Warfare 3, but a 'leaked' promotional poster uncovered by the Australian arm of games site IGN also specified 08.11.11.
Activision are yet to show Modern Warfare 3 --the follow-up to 2009's Modern Warfare 2 which sold 7 million copies on its first day alone-- in action but have released a handful of teaser trailers to stoke excitement. Last week, US video games blog Kotaku published a huge amount of apparently leaked details on the first person shooter, including modes and even a story outline. Robert Bowling, Creative Strategist of Infinity Ward, the developer behind the game, said on his Twitter account ""A lot of hype & a lot of leaked info on #MW3, some still accurate, some not. To avoid spoiling the experience, I'd wait for the real reveal."
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 will most likely follow in the footsteps of last year's interim game in the Call of Duty series, Black Ops, as the biggest video game of the year. Black Ops has surpassed $1bn (£625m) worth of sales and became the best selling entertainment item of 2010 in the UK, outselling DVDs and music. It will, however, face staunch competition in the form of EA's Battlefield 3, a similarly themed military FPS.
