Activision is collaborating with Netflix to bring the acclaimed Squid Game series to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone, and you’re welcome to participate in limited-time events, dress up in new Operator skins, and earn in-game rewards.
The Squid Game 2 event for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is scheduled to begin on January 3, 2025. Activision released a series of teaser teasers confirming the collaboration’s launch date. The exact timing of the update’s release has yet to be disclosed, although in the past, these events have often begun around 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET.
Activision, Treyarch, and the rest of the Call of Duty development team have teased the Squid Game 2 x Call of Duty crossover event on social media and via email blasts, but little has been verified or clarified. However, we’ve seen numerous prospective Operator skins appear in Call of Duty for usage in Black Ops 6 and Warzone. The pink-suit-wearing Guards, with their X, O, and Square designations, have been the most prominent Operator skins promoted in recent trailers, but we’ve also seen glimpses of the gilded-mask-and-suit-wearing VIPs and green-tracksuit-clad contenders.
Trailers have also hinted at the possibility of the Squid Game narrator’s voice being in the game, as well as the horrifying Red Light, Green Light game played by the show’s competitors. An event reward item in the style of the show’s red envelopes can also be floating as elimination rewards for participants to gather. Players will most likely exchange these floating cards for in-game rewards.
Players have lately chastised Call of Duty for using AI-generated graphics as in-game incentives during the Merry Mayhem event, as well as advertising posts on social media sites over the holidays. We don’t know enough about the impending Squid Game cooperation to say whether AI-generated images will be used, but doing so might exacerbate player dissatisfaction and damage faith in both series.
The story of Black Ops 6 is also at a strange turning point. The team decided not to carry over Operator bundles, weapons, and event rewards from Modern Warfare 2 and 3 (2022 and 2023, respectively) because Treyarch wanted to tell its own distinct story set in the 1990s, Treyarch leadership explained in an interview at Call of Duty: Next. In Squid Game 2, the action takes place in 2023.