Call of Duty crossovers may get even weirder as dataminer claims Nicki Minaj is on the way

The Boys were not the last crossover subjects

Marco Wutz | Jul 13, 2023

Call of Duty crossovers may get even weirder as dataminer claims Nicki Minaj is on the way /

The days of Call of Duty as a serious military shooter have long been over and nothing much can shock players anymore after the appearance of King Kong and Godzilla in the game last year. In the latest crossover, characters from Amazon Prime show The Boys have made their way into Activision’s golden goose. And that’s not the end of it, one dataminer claims (via CharlieINTEL), as Call of Duty further tries to follow the example of Fortnite.

According to the dataminer, rappers 21 Savage and Nicki Minaj are the next on the list to join the roster of available operator skins in Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.

Alaix, who is responsible for these claims, has a pretty solid track record of leaking Call of Duty content early, so while this should be taken with a grain of salt, it’s pretty clear that something in connection with these two people is coming up. Some fans suggested that their music may be added to the game, but the dataminer denied that possibility, doubling down on the artists becoming skins.

The two musicians would not only follow fictional characters like the superheroes and creatures mentioned above into the game – plenty of real-life celebrities from Snoop Dog and Kevin Durant to Lionel Messi and Neymar Jr. are already available in the game as operators. Each of these existing skins contains unique voice lines recorded by the people they’re supposed to represent.

Nicki Minaj has some established connections with Call of Duty, starring in an ad for the current iteration of the series.

Published Jul 13, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg