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Mark Lamia, the Studio Head at Treyarch, has confirmed that Zombies Mode will be reanimating on Call of Duty: Black Ops II this November in an interview with VentureBeat:

The multiplayer is pretty big and ambitious. And they really are creating another game with the Zombies there.

While that little tidbit of information would ordinarily be big news, CVG has ferreted out the first details of Zombies Mode and they are impressive.

Eight players will be able to take on the zombie menace in Black Ops II (up from four in the original Black Ops). With an increased player count, you can expect an increased zombie count as well: “Treyarch will be using the game’s improved multiplayer engine for zombies, which means double the amount of shuffling corpses to sink your bullets into.”

But I think the money quote is this one from CVG’s man on the inside: “Treyarch [has] given their zombie team free reign to do pretty much whatever they want with the mode regardless of the direction the campaign is headed in.”

In case you haven’t heard, Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on November 13.

Activision has officially released the Call of Duty: Black Ops II reveal trailer and it’s everything we hoped it would be. Los Angeles is burning and Sergeant Frank Woods is back in this “near future black operations” campaign against an enemy that “stole the keys” of some of the future’s greatest weapons including walking tanks, high tech helicopters and those quadrotor drones teased last week.

Those sound like fun and all, but Black Ops II will also feature horseback riding in a first person view. Hoo-yeah!

As expected, Call of Duty: Black Ops II is being developed by Treyarch and will be released on November 13, 2012. Start preparing now.

Activision’s UK arm flipped the switch on the official Call of Duty: Black Ops II site a might early, confirming the game’s existence a few hours ahead of its “NBA Playoffs on TNT” reveal. Of course, the site has reverted back to the countdown page for now.

The site also confirmed that the announcement will come with a huge “reveal trailer,” and sets that rumored November 13, 2012 release date in stone. Finally, some teaser text laid out the specific world-in-peril scenario for Black Ops II:

Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare.

[Source: Joystiq]