Mobile Suit Gundam Teams Up with Call of Duty for New Collaboration [UPDATED]

UPDATE: The Gundam collab details in Call of Duty have been unveiled and added to the article below along with the image above.The official Call of Duty blog updated with all the Season 4 details, including info on a set of Mobile Suit Gundam Tracer Packs. Three packs will launch during Season 4 this June, including:

Tracer Pack: Mobile Suit – RX-78-2: Amuro Ray’s classic Mobile Suit joins the fight with in-game blueprints for the Beam Rifle, Beam Saber and RX-78-2 Shield. There’s also a Newtype Finisher finishing move, a Haro weapon charm and more.

Tracer Pack: Mobile Suit – MS-06S Zaku II: The Red Comet, Char Aznable, is in the spotlight with the addition of the Zaku Machine Gun, Heat Hawk melee weapon and Warship Destroyer rifle. Searing Slash is the finishing move, and there are Zeon-themed weapon charms, stickers and more. 

Tracer Pack: Mobile Suit – XVX-016 Gundam Aerial: Rep Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury with Aerial’s Beam Rifle, Rebuild Rifle and Escutcheon, as well as featured characters from the series in the form of a Suletta and Miorine weapon vinyl. There’s also a Gundam Calibarn weapon sticker, Holder Mark weapon charm and “The Witch and the Bride” loading screen.

Original Story:While details are pretty much nonexistent at this point, a collaboration is brewing between Sunrise’s Mobile Suit Gundam series and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The official X (formerly Twitter) accounts for both the Call of Duty series and Gundam.Info shared a lightly animated teaser visual, promising that “Gundam comes to Call of Duty in Season 4.” 

The Mobile Suit Gundam anime is currently celebrating its 45th anniversary. No timing was given for the full reveal of the Call of Duty collab, so we’ll have to keep an eye out and stay tuned for some actual details. In the meantime, you can watch a ton of Gundam anime on Crunchyroll, including the original 1979 series from director Yoshiyuki Tomino. Here’s how Crunchyroll describes it:

Universal Century 0079. The rebel space colonies of the Principality of Zeon launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation, using humanoid fighting vehicles called mobile suits to overwhelm the Federation Forces and conquer half of Earth’s surface. Months later, the Federation has finally developed its own prototype mobile suits at a remote space colony. But when the colony suffers a Zeon surprise attack, these new weapons fall into the hands of a motley crew of civilians and cadets. Fate places a youth named Amuro Ray at the controls of the white mobile suit Gundam…

Source: Gundam.Info