Incoming! Incoming! New Call Of Duty Game This Year!

Grab your headset and start limbering up your shooting finger, because it's just been confirmed that there's going to be a new instalment of Call Of Duty this year.

The pre-eminent shoot 'em up videogame franchise will get a new release courtesy of Treyarch Studios, which was responsible for Call Of Duty: Black Ops.

COD in 2015 confirmed. We look forward to carrying on the conversation...that is, if we haven’t started it already. #InDevelopment

— Treyarch Studios (@Treyarch) February 5, 2015

It tweeted: "COD in 2015 confirmed. We look forward to carrying on the conversation...that is, if we haven't started it already. #InDevelopment"

The last instalment in the franchise, Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, was developed by Sledgehammer Games and hit the shelves late last year for PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.

A DLC pack titled "Havoc" is due out for the game later this month.