In February, due to frequent leaks regarding the then-upcoming Warzone being spread around, Activision issued a subpoena for the forum website Reddit, in order to identify one of the site’s users who posted leaked information. Since this was presumably done in order to take legal action against the user, very possibly a current or former employee, this incident seems the most likely candidate for what the newspaper may be referencing.

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The lead up to the announcement of Call of Duty: Warzone was rocky for Activision to say the least. Extensive details about Warzone’s gameplay and capabilities, various animations, release date, menus, as well as the game’s map were all leaked and spread around social media before Activision had even offered any official acknowledgment of Warzone’s existence.

The name Warzone itself was revealed to the public through leaks, long before any announcements on the subject were made. At one point, players were even able to glitch themselves inside of the game’s menus and play on its map prior to release.

Why Infinity Ward would be making reference to these leaks and the resulting legal action against the Reddit leaker in-game is unknown. Perhaps an employee, when designing the game’s map, simply felt the desire to make a tongue-in-cheek nod to real-life events.

However, it’s also very possible that this is all just a coincidence. Given that the wildly successful Warzone had certainly already been in production long before any leaks or subpoenas, it’s possible that the title was simply made to fill out an art asset, and sounded like something that would appear in the business section of a newspaper. If that is in fact the case, it does lend a bit of retroactive irony to the whole situation.

Regardless of why the title was chosen, and whether it’s an intentional Easter egg, it’s an interesting side note nonetheless. Because whatever the reason, the whole thing now reads more like an ominous warning to the very creators of the game than it does like simple flavor text.

Call of Duty: Warzone is currently available for PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One.

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