The countdown to the next Call of Duty game has begun. Activision has been sending dogtags to people in their good graces (not us, of course), and printed on said dogtags is the URL www.findmakarov.com.

Going to that site reveals a countdown timer, one that’s set to expire in a little less than five days.

Presumably this will lead to the announcement of the next Call of Duty game.

But as Devin said in our chartroom, you guys do know that 2011 will be the year of Battlefield 3, right? Why bother with pale imitations when the real deal is about to return?

Feel free to get excited, I suppose, but this series has gone down the “meh” path since Modern Warfare 2.