{"id":11739,"date":"2022-06-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/five-years-later-call-of-duty-returns-to-steam-with-modern-warfare-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:00:00","slug":"five-years-later-call-of-duty-returns-to-steam-with-modern-warfare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/five-years-later-call-of-duty-returns-to-steam-with-modern-warfare-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years later, Call of Duty returns to Steam with Modern Warfare 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nThe PC version of Call of Duty returns to Steam five years after ditching the platform in favour of Blizzard&#8217;s Battle.net.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nActivision today confirmed Infinity Ward&#8217;s upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will release on Steam as well as Battle.net when it comes out on 28th October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt marks the return of the shooter franchise to Valve&#8217;s platform five years after Sledgehammer&#8217;s Call of Duty: WW2 came out in November 2017. That game went down as the last new PC Call of Duty to appear on Steam, with all subsequent mainline games (Black Ops 4, Modern Warfare, Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard), as well as free-to-play battle royale Warzone releasing on Battle.net exclusively.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/five-years-later-call-of-duty-returns-to-steam-with-modern-warfare-2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PC version of Call of Duty returns to Steam five years after ditching the platform in favour of Blizzard&#8217;s Battle.net. Activision today confirmed Infinity Ward&#8217;s upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will release on Steam as well as Battle.net when it comes out on 28th October. 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