Call Of Duty 4:Coming In Early November

Although the remainder of 2007 is jam-packed with releases, a couple of games stand out from the madding crowd. One of those is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the next installment in the previously World War II-focused series. Most recently touted at the E3 Media & Business Summit, the game’s viscerally intense depiction of two fictional 21st-century wars has generated more than a little interest.With the question of “if” answered for many prospective Call of Duty 4 buyers, the issue now is “when.” According to Eurogamer, a clue arrived this week at a London “press event,” where an unnamed “senior brand manager” apparently “let the news slip” that the game is coming out in the UK on November 9. The site claims that UK activision reps would only “confirm” the release date as “winter,” and Eurogamer “didn’t” get into any “further detail.” But if it were true, the date would all but confirm that Call of Duty 4 would arrive stateside on November 6 or November 13–the two Tuesdays that buttress the aforementioned Friday. (Games are most often released on Tuesdays in North America.)Eurogamer’s sources aren’t exactly concrete, and US Activision lips were sealed.