Next Call of Duty Due This Year on PC, Consoles; Takes Place in 'New Military Theater'

The next entry in the Activision-owned wartime shooting franchise Call of Duty will take place in a "new military theater," according to Activision Publishing CEO and president Mike Griffith.

Speaking during a conference call yesterday, Griffith said that the unnamed sequel, which many unofficially refer to as Call of Duty 5, will arrive on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS later this year.

The CEO did not elaborate further on the game's setting. His comments suggest that, contrary to past reports, the title may not return to the World War II setting featured in the first three Call of Duty titles.

As pointed out by Gamasutra, no details were provided as toMOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. An overall census of Siberian tigers will be conducted in Russia in early 2015 to outline tiger conservation measures, the Ministry of Natural Resources said on Wednesday.

The two-week census scheduled to start on January 26 will involve some 2,000 environmentalists who will measure and identify tiger tracks, the ministry said.

The previous census held ten years ago showed that some 450 endangered Siberian tigers were living in Russia's Far East, mainly in the Primorye and Khabarovsk territories.

The Siberian tiger, also known as Amur tiger, is on the Red List of Threatened Species. In 2010, Russia launched a national strategy to protect the Siberian tiger, the largest of the five tiger species.