Activision: Call of Duty game coming this year ‘returns to origin’

By admin On Feb 10, 2017

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Activision will release a new entry in the Call of Duty series this year that “returns to its origins.” This is what the publisher says when presenting its quarterly figures. Activision has not yet provided further details about the new game.

The first three installments of the Call of Duty series are set during World War II. The new game Activision will release this year may do the same. The publisher has not said that much yet, but the presentation of the quarterly figures states that the series will return to its roots. It is not yet known when the new CoD game will be released.

In recent years, Activision shifted the theme from its Call of Duty games to science fiction warfare. Last year the company released CoD: Infinity Warfare, a game that was received less enthusiastically by many gamers than Battlefield 1 from competitor Electronic Arts. EA already chose last year to return to the past with that game by using the First World War as the theme.

Activision also released a remaster of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare along with Infinite Warfare. There seemed to be more enthusiasm for that game, but the publisher could also count on criticism because this remaster is only available in combination with the new game.

Activision-Blizzard does not provide details on CoD: Infinite Warfare deliveries or player numbers in its quarterly earnings. The publisher only emphasizes that a lot of money has been made with DLC for CoD: Black Ops III and that the franchise is still very popular.

The publisher also announced that Overwatch is Blizzard’s most successful game to date. The game was the fastest to reach 25 million players and is also the most successful Blizzard game in its first year from a financial point of view.

Activision-Blizzard closed the quarter with $2 billion in revenue. In the same quarter last year, that was just under 1.4 billion. For the full year, the publisher achieved a turnover of 6.6 billion dollars, converted about 6.2 billion euros. Turnover was 42 percent higher than a year earlier.