News Jun 27th, 2019

Treyarch says it takes employee wellbeing "very seriously" following damning report into Call of Duty Black Ops 4's development

Contractors complain of being treated like second class citizens, developers had to work long hours to finish last-minute battle royale addition Blackout

• game development
• working culture
• call of duty: black ops IIII
• crunch

News Oct 18th, 2018

Call of Duty opening weekend revenue flat year-on-year

Black Ops IIII makes $500m in its first weekend; same as 2017's WWII

• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News Oct 17th, 2018

Report: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII hasn't killed PUBG on Steam

But it's early days yet

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• call of duty
• pubg
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News Oct 15th, 2018

Activision claims Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is its biggest Day One digital sales event, offers no figures to support this

Game is released, sells copies digitally

• data
• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops IIII
• pr spin

News Jun 27th, 2018

Mods support could eventually come to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Closed Battle.net ecosystem shouldn't affect future plans for Call of Duty modding

• modding
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News Jun 15th, 2018

Next Call Of Duty faces backlash over “community-splitting” content pass

Content plan threatens to fragment player base, while competitors have moved towards free level drops

• Multiplayer
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News May 18th, 2018

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 drops Steam in favour of Battle.net

Developer Treyarch has also ditched single player for the project, per prior rumours

• Steam
• call of duty
• battle.net
• single player
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News May 4th, 2018

Activision Blizzard has its eyes set on battle royale

The rise of Fortnite and PUBG hasn’t gone ignored by the biggest publisher in town.

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• overwatch
• fortnite: battle royale
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News Apr 18th, 2018

Report: Of course the next Call of Duty might have a battle royale mode

And it might be missing a single player mode, too

• call of duty
• battle royale
• single player
• narrative
• call of duty: black ops IIII

News Mar 8th, 2018

Activision confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, set to launch in October

Releasing earlier than normal, presumably to combat competition from EA's Battlefield title

• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops
• call of duty: black ops IIII