![]() In addition to taking political sides (likely to appease its Chinese masters in Tencent), Activision cut a bunch of jobs this year as it focuses on its biggest franchises such as Call of Duty and Overwatch.īut all that really doesn’t matter to gamers, just political science majors and tech journalists. Meanwhile, the publisher of Call of Duty: Mobile is Activision Blizzard, which is facing its own set of problems. Maybe recent changes to PUBG had something to do with it. The game is yet to be launched in China which is odd because the game was developed by Tencent, a Chinese based internet company that also has a hand in PUBG and Epic Games. Compete it did, as it destroyed those games’ first week downloads (26.3, 22.5 and 25 million respectively)Īccording to Reuters, 17% of the downloads came from the United States, with India close behind. While the last major CoD release, Black Ops III, featured a Battle Royale mode, it was a bit surprising to see it move to mobile to compete with PUBG, Fortnite and Apex Legends. Regardless of my feelings, Call of Duty: Mobile has now hit 100 million downloads in its first week.īattle Royale is the new hotness and it was a matter of time before Call of Duty, one of the most popular FPS games ever to exist, got the mobile Battle Royale treatment. I can barely play Call of Duty on a 55-inch television without getting smoked by 14 year-olds on the regular. When I first heard of Call of Duty: Mobile I rolled my aging gamer eyes into the back of my head and went back to Candy Crush.
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