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Talk about milking the franchise, Activision has announced that both Guitar Hero and Call of Duty will release brand new games in late 2009. The announcement comes out before Guitar Hero: World Tour and Call of Duty: World at War are sold to the public later this year. Publishing CEO Mike Griffith had this to say:.

Now this is a turn up for the books, we all love Call of Duty 4 (CoD4) which we are all playing online over and over again because it is addictive, well get this latest news scoop, Call of Duty 6 pencilled for 2009.a>.

Kotick said that the title would indeed follow the series “leapfrog studio strategy”, basically saying that the development responsibilities would indeed switch back from WoW creator Treyarch to COD4 dev Infinity Ward.