Rumors have been abound that Black Ops 2 would be the next Call of Duty game ever since Activision bought blackops2.com.  Following that, we were told that a new Call of Duty game would launch in 2012.

Today, we got more evidence that that new Call of Duty game is in fact Black Ops 2.  Here’s the skinny…

Earlier today Amazon France put up a product page for Black Ops 2.  The page was quickly removed, however this was not before several French game blogs saw the page and put up a story about it.  Here’s where things get real.

Activision contacted those game blogs and asked them to take the story down.  Some sites obeyed but one in particular, Gameblog, refused.  Activision responded by un-inviting them from next week’s Transformers: The Fall of Cybertron event, revoking their rights to review copies of Activision games, and by removing all Activision advertising from their website.

While this is still far from an official confirmation of Black Ops 2 it certainly seems obvious that Activision would not have gone through this much effort to kill this story if it weren’t true.

So what are your thoughts?  Are you glad that the next Call of Duty game will be a sequel to the well-received Black Ops or would you rather have seen something totally different?