Finally, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is crossing over with Black Ops Easter eggs – in Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone players have found Black Ops Easter eggs, a significant ramping up of Activision’s ongoing tease of the next mainline Call of Duty game, which Eurogamer this week reported is titled Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War.

Now Warzone’s mysterious bunkers are open, Warzone players have discovered Black Ops’ iconic RC-XD frame sitting on a table in a shack just to the west of the prison. Also inside the shack are a bunch of old computers – all very Black Ops / Cold War. A U-2 spy plane was discovered by dataminers – expect that to fly over the map seemingly at random. The spy plane was a killstreak in the original Black Ops.

Here’s a couple of pictures of the RCXD in #warzone.

Thanks to @notyumei for sending these to me! #CallOfDuty #BlackOpsColdWar #ModernWarfare #CodWarzone pic.twitter.com/Wjt7RB0kWe

— ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) May 22, 2020

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These discoveries are part of Activision’s plan to reveal Call of Duty 2020 in Warzone, but the move is significant for another reason: it marks the first meaningful crossover of the Modern Warfare and Black Ops brands.

Up to this point, the Modern Warfare and Black Ops series’ were kept separate, each with its own lore, characters, Easter eggs and technology. The developers behind both series, Infinity Ward and Treyarch, are known for developing their titles independent of each other. They do not cross the streams, so to speak. You do not get the hugely popular Black Ops PvE mode Zombies, for example, in Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare games.