Choose your FPS adventure this weekend – Battlefield 6 open beta or Call of Duty BO6 season 5?

Prepare for the first of several FPS clashes to round out 2025 this weekend, gamers. It’s Battlefield and Call of Duty all over again.

On Thursday, Aug. 7, both the Battlefield 6 open beta and Black Ops 6 season five updates will be going live. And so, just like later this fall, the two massive FPS franchises will be going head-to-head for gamers’ time and, eventually, money.

This is the first Battlefield game in several years, and there’s a lot of hype around the new title, so I’m expecting it to be hugely popular. But BO6 is bringing one final Zombies map, Reckoning, to the table. And there’s only so much time in the day to game, so a choice must be made.

CoD’s season five will also be adding some new stuff to Warzone and BO6 multiplayer, so if you’re a CoD fan, there’s a good amount of stuff to try out. But will BF6 be taking up your time instead?

And so now, I pose the question to you, dear readers: which FPS will be taking up your weekend? Will you be dun-dun dun-dun-dun’ing it in BF6, or will you be slaying zombies in BO6 or dropping into Warzone? Let us know in the comments below, but either way, have some fun.