{"id":702350,"date":"2026-07-20T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:48:13","slug":"give-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-a-go-in-its-ps5-beta-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702350\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 a Go in Its PS5 Beta Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Activision has announced its annual beta for the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty<\/a> title, this year being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Warfare 4<\/a>, shall begin for those who pre-order on 21st August 2026. Five days of access will be provided, at which point the beta will go down for a few days and then return available to everyone from 28th August.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what those beta periods look like:<\/p>\n<p>Early Access21st August \u2014 25th AugustOpen Beta28th August \u2014 1st September<br \/>\n<a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Modern Warfare 4 Beta PS5 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/dd0492b95cc52\/modern-warfare-4-beta-ps5-2.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/modern-warfare-4-beta-ps5-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Modern Warfare 4 Beta PS5 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that the exact contents of the beta period will be detailed at a later date, because today&#8217;s blog post provides more of a broad description:<\/p>\n<p>Get ready to drop into multiple Multiplayer maps and modes, choosing from a wide selection of brand-new Operators, including all the Vault Edition Operators for players who pre-order the Vault Edition, and unlocking as many as 19 different weapons before deploying into everything from small-scale 3v3 skirmishes to massive tactical battles featuring tanks and more. Test your mettle across new and returning modes, from Search &amp; Destroy to the brand-new Kill Block, plus the Training Mobility Course.<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 comes to PS5 (this is the first year without a PS4 version) on 23rd October 2026, giving you enough time to play its single player and online modes before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/grand_theft_auto_6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GTA 6<\/a> arrives.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be checking out the beta dropping at the end of next month? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activision has announced its annual beta for the next Call of Duty title, this year being Modern Warfare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[763,101692,19422,59,112,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-activision","tag-betas","tag-call-of-duty","tag-gb","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}