Black Ops 7 is set 40 years after the events of Black Ops 6's campaign, but there's already one strong connection between the two games.

We talk to Call of Duty developers Miles Leslie and Natalie Pohorski at gamescom 2025 to find out how Black Ops 7's co-op campaign takes cues from the Batman Arkham games by using fear toxin as the basis of the weirdest COD missions we've seen yet.