Activision Blizzard Inc. this week said Call of Duty: Black Ops for Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3, Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360, and the PC generated $650 million in the first five days of sale in global territories.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops continues to mark off milestones, as Activision today announced that the Treyarch first-person shooter has reaped $1 billion in revenues since its November 9 debut. According to the publisher, "in all of entertainment," only James Cameron's blockbuster film Avatar has managed to break the billion-dollar mark that quickly.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- As if the gun-toting action in "Call of Duty: Black Ops" wasn't expected to feel real enough in high definition, Activision Blizzard Inc. announced Tuesday that the latest entry in its successful first-person-shooter video game franchise would be released in 3-D, yet another addition to the 3-D revolution's growing arsenal.
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Leading US games retailer GameStop says it has taken an "all-time" record number of pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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the Director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement has been explaining Microsoft's decision to ban CoD players who use the customisation mode to draw swastika badges for their in-game avatars
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Nintendo's handheld, Activision's shooter reign supreme on last month's hardware, software rankings--latter sells 8.4 million; US sales up 8 percent for best November on record. Industry research firm the NPD Group has reported $2.95 billion in US game sales for the month of November, a 9 percent increase in overall sales of non-PC hardware, software, and accessories. Including PC games, the total was $2.99 billion, an 8 percent uptick over the same period the year prior.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops has prompted outrage in Cuba for challenging players to kill Fidel Castro in part of the game
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NEW YORK – "Call of Duty: Black Ops" shattered entertainment records this week when it raked in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale. The game, from Activision Blizzard Inc., sold 5.6 million units the day it went on sale, according to the company. Its predecessor, "Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2," meanwhile, sold 4.7 million copies to reap in $310 million during its first day on sale last year.
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Few rivalries are as sharply defined as the battle between two big modern combat games of the fall season: Call of Duty Black Ops and Medal of Honor. Call of Duty Black Ops is expected to sell around 6 million units across all platforms in its first week and 12 million to 14 million by the end of the year. That’s a little less than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the best-selling video game of all time, and about four times higher than Medal of Honor.
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During Activision Blizzard's quarterly earnings report today, the video game publisher divulged some fascinating statistics about one of their key franchises, Call of Duty. Since Call of Duty: Black Ops launched in November 2010, a staggering 27 million gamers have spent an average of 52 minutes per day playing the shooter online according to Activision's internal estimates. Incredibly, the average Facebook user spends roughly 55 minutes daily on the social network.
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