You may not have heard of him, but Italy certainly has - and you'll now get to know him as Call of Duty's newest operator.

Meet Fabio Rovazzi, Italian "singer, author, actor, director [and] friend of Will Smith" who's become the face of Morte, an Italian special forces operator who's arriving in Modern Warfare and Warzone tomorrow. Rovazzi's managed to rack up some serious views with his hit songs Andiamo a Comandare and Tutto Molto Interessante (with 182m and 147m views on YouTube respectively), and after meeting some Infinity Ward devs at a sci-fi convention, he's bagged himself a place as an in-game character.

"Being a character in Call of Duty has always been a secret and impossible dream of mine," said Rovazzi. "There are no words to describe the excitement of the opportunity to give my voice and my appearance to an operator."

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A high-profile video game cheat maker has apologised for ruining Call of Duty for legit players after a legal threat from Activision.

CxCheats.net issued a statement on its Discord announcing it had ceased development and support of its Call of Duty cheats sold on its website following a lawsuit from Activision.

"We apologise for any pain we've caused to players of Call of Duty," reads the message, caught by redditor MrTheRevertz-. It appears the Discord is now offline.

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If, like me, you foolishly forgot to update Modern Warfare in time for this evening's Black Ops Cold War reveal event, then worry no more - this recap of events is for you.

Players who logged into Warzone at 6:30pm this evening were presented with a "Know your History" playlist, which popped them into Verdansk... but not as we know it. Glitchy Cold War images appeared in the loading screen, and all location names were blacked out on the map. Then the game began in earnest, with players required to complete tasks on a checklist such as looting and killing for intel, and hunting down keys marked on the map. Respawns were on, mercifully.

A particularly cryptic task asked players to "wield the weapon", but gave them only the map coordinates rather than a marked map location. It was a true treasure hunt that kept players on their toes (and gave me flashbacks to my DofE expeditions), but those who were successful found Black Ops character Frank Woods hanging out in Verdansk - and a special Bay of Pigs SKS blueprint for their troubles. Woods is also coming to Modern Warfare as an operator, by the way.

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We're a day out from the official reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and the leaks are coming thick and fast, as yet another datamine has revealed the official description for the title - and even a possible release date.

The full description for Black Ops Cold War was posted by CODTracker, and reveals the game is a "direct sequel" to the original Black Ops. Set in the midst of the Cold War in the 1980s, players will "battle around the globe through iconic locales like East Berlin, Vietnam, Turkey, Soviet KGB headquarters and more" as part of the campaign.

"As elite operatives, you will follow the trail of a shadowy figure named Perseus who is on a mission to destabilise the global balance of power and change the course of history," the description adds. "Descend into the dark center of this global conspiracy alongside iconic characters Woods, Mason and Hudson and a new cast of operatives attempting to stop a plot decades in the making."

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After someone managed to play their way through Minecraft and slay the Ender Dragon using a piano keyboard, I thought I'd seen it all, yet we have another entry in the instruments-as-controllers category - and it's rather spectacular.

As posted to the Modern Warfare subreddit, streamer DeanoBeano managed to get a kill with a sniper rifle using a real drum kit. Limited to hitting only two controls at once, with each drum and cymbal bound to a specific function, DeanoBeano managed to painstakingly line up a shot before acing the timing on the last beat. The cymbal crash at the end really adds something, I think.

That kill in itself was remarkable enough, but DeanoBeano then took things a step further and managed to get a Gulag win using the drums. Thankfully, he was able to position himself on the correct side of the Gulag and managed to sneakily get the drop on his opponent.

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If at first you don't succeed, try and try again - that's what Infinity Ward is doing with Call of Duty: Warzone's notorious Bruen LMG, which has once again been slapped with a nerf just two weeks after the last one.

Earlier in August, Infinity Ward nerfed the Bruen MK9, which was considered the most powerful gun in the battle royale. This LMG had the accuracy at range, mobility and reload time of an assault rifle - with the right attachments - and had become central to Call of Duty's meta.

Infinity Ward initially reduced the Bruen's maximum damage range from 42m to 27m. That was seen as a significant nerf at the time, but in-game, the Bruen felt as effective as ever.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone has had broken shotgun snipers before, but this is something else.

The 12-Gauge Deputy underbarrel shotgun attachment for the FR 556 assault rifle is, well, there's no nice way to say this: it's broken beyond belief. It's dishing out insane damage at a range no underbarrel shotgun should. Right now, it's a one-hit kill machine - eliminating players with full armour plates and full health at a range of 15 metres.

Clearly, this is not working as intended. With the recent launch of Season 5, developer Infinity Ward buffed the FR 556 and it hasn't worked properly. What appears to have happened is Infinity Ward's range buff for the FR 556 has carried over to the underbarrel shotgun attachment as well. High-profile Call of Duty YouTuber TheXclusiveAce released a video highlighting the issue, and of course the wider Call of Duty community picked it up.

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Lockdown saw remarkable sales of video games in the UK.

The Entertainment Retailers Association published sales data for 23rd March to 13th June, and it shows video games sold bucketloads on these shores.

The two top-selling entertainment products were videos: Star Wars Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker in at number one with 637,484 copies sold during lockdown, and Frozen 2 in at two with 541,783 copies sold.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Xbox One players are being forced to download a massive 66.3GB patch to fix the weapon graphics corruption bug that has been plaguing the game since the launch of Season 5.

PlayStation 4 owners only need to download a 1.2GB patch, whereas on PC, Warzone-only players need to download a 0.88GB patch, and Warzone and Modern Warfare players must download a 1.83GB patch.

Why the enormous difference on Xbox One? "Due to an unforeseen bug with the Microsoft patch delivery process, this download requires Xbox users to redownload files they already have, but it does NOT impact the overall install size," Infinity Ward explained. "We're working closely with Microsoft to ensure future updates are smaller in size."

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Infinity Ward has said it is "fast-tracking" a fix for a weird graphical corruption bug that turns Call of Duty: Warzone weapons into glitchy nightmares.

This bug, which the Warzone community brought to light a week ago with the launch of Season 5, sees weapons and in some cases objects on the Warzone map glitch into strange shifting, jaggedy shapes.

This bug kind of reminds of something out of an '80s sci-fi movie. Maybe the shield practise scene from Dune? Or maybe something out of one of the Transformers movies?

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