Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War leak suggests early beta will be coming in October

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is getting a PS4 beta and the release date appears to have been leaked.

According to this leak, the beta phase will be available first on PS4 consoles on October 8 and it seems likely that it would be available to Xbox and PC users eventually.

CoD Tracker, a website dedicated to Call of Duty news, reported that the reveal date for the open beta was accidentally shown on the Arabic in-game store in Modern Warfare.

A post on Reddit notes that “early access to the Open Beta begins on October 8, first on PS4.” It also confirms that the PS4 version of Black Ops Cold War "will be playable on the PS5 when it launches".

The reveal trailer for Black Ops Cold War explained that Infinity Ward and Activision has an agreement with Sony to give the beta access to PS4 players first, which the leak claims will be "at least five days earlier than any other format".

If legitimate, this means that Xbox and PC players will be able to get into the open beta as of October 13, or later in the week.

To qualify for the beta and play an early version of the game, it seems like you will have to pre-order any digital edition of the game to get immediate access when it goes live.

Activision has yet to confirm whether or not this information is true and, at the moment, the only word we have on the beta is that you will have to pre-order it.

If the leak is correct, we only have one month and a bit to wait until the beta begins, so it seems likely we will get a date set in stone by Activision in the near future.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was revealed through a trailer in Warzone, the battle royale mode introduced in Modern Warfare.

Black Ops Cold War will be, as you might expect, all about the Cold War, exploring the early 1980s with a "gripping single-player campaign" when it releases on November 13.