A remake of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is apparently in the works after the official Call of Duty Twitter account replied to a 16-month-old tweet with two emoji: pile of poo and jeans.

In December 2014, Angus Varderslott announced that he would "literally shit [his] pants" with excitement if he ever learned of a Call of Duty 4 remaster. Call of Duty 4 was a landmark title. It was the first Call of Duty game set in the present day, after a series of World War II-themed titles, and it set the standard for "cinematic" first-person shooters. While these days the series is derided as being rather formulaic and linear, the first Modern Warfare title held genuine surprises, with an extraordinarily tense sniper mission in the ruins of Pripyat (the Ukrainian city abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster) and the death of one of the player characters in the aftermath of a nuclear strike.

The tweet reply suggests that Varderslott had better take a trip to the laundry.

The tweet is confirmation of a leak yesterday that indicated that a remastered version of Call of Duty 4 would be included in some editions of a forthcoming Call of Duty title, Infinite Warfare. A leak from Amazon, since closed, suggested that all three Modern Warfare games could be coming to the PS4.