This year’s Call of Duty could be making a return trip to the Cold War period, it seems.

An extensive leak appearing yesterday over on Reddit by user SunnyMatrix claims that information was provided to them by a “source that is involved in primarily screenwriting for television and film,” though notes that the individual is often recruited by video game publishers in the capacity of a consultant to review story drafts and scripts. There is, of course, no way to verify whether those assertions are true, though the thread in question has already gained a considerable amount of attention regardless.

As was the case with last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, SunnyMatrix’s source claims that 2020’s installment will deliver another so-called soft reboot, this time in the form of Treyarch’s Black Ops subseries. The studio is already known to be leading development this time around,...