{"id":626471,"date":"2026-03-26T04:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-beta-date-leak"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:39:02","slug":"the-modern-warfare-2-beta-is-seemingly-starting-august-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-modern-warfare-2-beta-is-seemingly-starting-august-15\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Warfare 2 beta is seemingly starting August 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-modern-warfare-2-beta-is-seemingly-starting-august-15.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen a fair bit of <strong>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2<\/strong> over the past couple of weeks. There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-campaign-reveal\">the reveal trailer<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-campaign-gameplay\">a longer gameplay demo<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve been following Call of Duty news in recent years, however, you may be wondering about the lack of multiplayer news.<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty trailers usually end with a multiplayer tease, whether that be news of a proper multiplayer reveal event, or simply confirmation of an alpha\/beta test. Modern Warfare 2, however, did not seem interested in sharing such news.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to giant retailer Amazon (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/the-modern-warfare-2-beta-release-date-might-have-been-leaked-by-amazon\/\">VGC<\/a>), we may have some idea. Modern Warfare 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Call-Duty-Modern-Warfare-PlayStation-5\/dp\/B0B3H227Z5\">is available to pre-order on Amazon<\/a>, and doing so gets you early access to the beta &#8211; as has become the standard. Those product listings also reveal that the pre-order bonus is only valid until August 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-beta-date-leak\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-beta-date-leak\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen a fair bit of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 over the past couple of weeks. There was the reveal trailer, followed by a longer gameplay demo. If you&#8217;ve been following Call of Duty news in recent years, however, you may be wondering about the lack of multiplayer news. Call of Duty trailers usually end with a multiplayer tease, whether that be news of a proper multiplayer reveal event, or simply confirmation of an alpha\/beta test. Modern Warfare 2, however, did not seem interested in sharing such news. But thanks to giant retailer Amazon (via VGC), we may have some idea. Modern Warfare 2 is available to pre-order on Amazon, and doing so gets you early access to the beta &#8211; as has&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-modern-warfare-2-beta-is-seemingly-starting-august-15\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[473,142,47,88,6109,6765,1908,7337,59,44,45,60,4616],"class_list":["post-626471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-activision","tag-amazon","tag-blockbuster","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2","tag-fps-shooter","tag-infinity-ward","tag-modern-warfare-2","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Modern Warfare 2 beta is seemingly starting August 15 | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We&#039;ve seen a fair bit of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 over the past couple of weeks. 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