The new Weekend Warfare mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered might actually be one of the most ill-conceived and unbalanced game modes in the franchise's history.

You can now play the first five hours of Ghost Recon: Wildlands for free, and you really should consider trying it. The military shooter, Ubisoft's best-selling game of 2017 so far, combines traditional Ghost Recon stealth tactics with open world co-op shenanigans as you work to dismantle a drug cartel in the Bolivian jungle.

Hardcore Call of Duty Zombies players showed off impressive speed runs and even broke some records in their quest to compete in a $US20,000 ($25,219) Zombies World Championship this month in Los Angeles.

I was originally disappointed with Ghost Recon: Wildlands' first expansion, "Narco Road," but I recently decided to give it another shot. I spent most of my evening riding an unexplainable hybrid of dirt bike and llama.

The passing of George A. Romero on July 16 has the Call of Duty community remembering the legendary filmmaker in a fun zombie fashion.

The latest update for Ghost Recon: Wildlands contains a creepy Easter egg that promises to send players on a witch hunt (literally).

The fan-favourite Prop Hunt mode returned to Modern Warfare Remastered on June 30 as part of Call of Duty's "Days of Summer" event, which runs until August 1. In addition to disguising themselves as garbage or furniture on a map for a wacky game of hide and seek, players are being trolled by one map with outlandish seasonal props and RPGs.

With Call of Duty: WWII, Activision is making some significant changes to the series' multiplayer mode, including new social features and a complete overhaul of the perks and class systems.

Artists find inspiration in many places, including Call of Duty's remastered Zombie maps.

The most powerful gun in Ghost Recon: Wildlands' new "Fallen Ghosts" DLC is a sniper rifle that can blow up cars with a single bullet.

A second major expansion has arrived for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, one in which players will go from the hunters to the hunted.

A competitive Call of Duty team made history over the weekend by becoming the first European team to win a major tournament on US soil.

It's like the Call of Duty version of extreme couponing. Last weekend, Infinite Warfare's Double XP weekend allowed many players to stack up bonuses and challenges to snag over a million XP from just one multiplayer match. One enterprising streamer even racked up 2.5 million XP in a single game.

I've been a fan of Treyarch's Zombies modes ever since "Nacht der Untoten" graced Call of Duty: World at War. I've been dying to revisit the classic maps, but with my PS3 long out to pasture, I haven't had the chance. Now, thanks to Zombies Chronicles, I can play the classics again in stunning new detail.

The $US49.99 ($67) season pass for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare gets you four map packs with four new multiplayer maps each. What it doesn't guarantee is that these new maps will actually come up in multiplayer matches online. In my experience so far, playing a DLC map is like finding a unicorn.

If you have a spare three hours, you can watch a YouTube streamer set a remarkably high score in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 by hanging out in a pool of goop.

Shaolin Shuffle, the latest map for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's Zombies mode, has players performing some rather un-Call of Duty-like tasks in order to access all of its secrets. Tasks like playing an ersatz version of Candy Crush. Or even mahjong.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's second map pack, released this week, brings us a game mode filled with the sights and sounds of 1970's New York City, kung fu superpowers, and the undead. For developer Infinity Ward, which has struggled with Zombie mode in the past, it's a new beginning.

Now that Black Ops II is backward compatible on Xbox One, you might be interested in returning to the game, or checking it out for the first time. If so -- just like jumping into any older Call of Duty game on any platform -- you'll want to be aware of how to spot hacked multiplayer lobbies.