Since its launch in October 2019, Call of Duty: Mobile has reached one billion downloads worldwide. Activision announced this milestone ahead of the game’s fifth anniversary.

The MobileGamer portal has examined the current state of the mobile shooter market. It referred to data from the AppMagic service and compiled a top-9 revenue ranking of games in this genre on the App Store and Google Play as of September.

Activision has announced that it is not going to close Call of Duty: Mobile in the near future. Rumors about the imminent termination of support for the game appeared after the publication of Microsoft‘s response to the British antitrust regulator.

Two and a half years ago Activision Blizzard released a mobile version of Call of Duty. Over the past time, gamers have spent over $1.5 billion in it. This allowed Call of Duty: Mobile to become the third highest-grossing mobile shooter in 2021.

Free Fire continues to set records. The analytical company App Annie estimated that in January-June, the total mobile downloads of Free Fire amounted to 104.5 million. This is the best result among mobile battle royales.

The head of the hits Call of Duty: Mobile and Call of Duty: Warzone unexpectedly joined Electronic Arts, a direct competitor to Activision. He will lead the development of the Battlefield series and will be responsible for all new games in the franchise.Byron Beede has become the new senior vice president and general manager of Battlefield, IGN reports.

To correct the balance of weapons in Call of Duty: Mobile, developers from TiMi Studios and Activision had to collect community reviews and test them in practice using limited playtests. Matt Lewis, the general manager of the game and vice president of the publisher’s mobile direction, told about the difficulties encountered.Matt Lewis’ original column was published on Gamasutra on May 12.

Chinese TiMi Studios is part of Tencent and is known for such hits as Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile. Last year, its revenue reached a fabulous $10 billion. Now the company intends to make not only mobile games, but also projects for other platforms.This is reported by Reuters with reference to two sources familiar with the situation.

Activision Blizzard has announced its intention to move all of its major franchises to mobile devices. This was influenced by the success of Call of Duty: Mobile, which earned $480 million in its first year.The company’s executives announced their plans during a conversation with investors, which traditionally took place after the publication of the quarterly report.

The launch of the Call of Duty: Mobile shooter took place in October 2019. Since then, the number of installations of the game has exceeded 300 million.

During the year, Call of Duty: Mobile managed to become one of the most successful mobile shooters. Sensor Tower reports that the revenue of the game has approached $ 500 million, and the project has a release in the Chinese market ahead.General information on Call of Duty: Mobile

The mobile version of Call of Duty continues to gain popularity. The monthly number of hours that users spend in the game, at its peak, approached 1 billion.On Android alone, players spent 850 million hours in Call of Duty: Mobile during the peak month.

Sensor Tower analyzed the revenue of battle royales on mobile platforms up to August 13, 2020 – the day when Fortnite was removed from the App Store and Google Play. It turned out that the Epic Games game in the world, although it earned over $ 1 billion, was seriously lagging behind competitors in terms of revenue.General data on battle royals

Sensor Tower analysts appreciated the success of Call of Duty: Mobile in the first two months. Her earnings reached $87 million, and downloads — 172 million.

The authors of Call of Duty: Mobile have achieved a higher level of engagement than the developers of mobile Fortnite. As a result of the first 14 days after the release, Call of Duty: Mobile has higher revenue and engagement levels than Fortnite over the same period.

Which mobile games turned out to be the most downloaded and profitable by the end of October 2019, — we tell together with DataMagic.

Call of Duty: Mobile has the biggest launch in the history of mobile gaming. Before her, no mobile game managed to reach 100 million installs in just seven days.

Call of Duty: Mobile earnings reached $2 million. Activision and Tencent have installed the new game 20 million times.

Call of Duty: Mobile from Activision Blizzard and Tencent has been released. The game is now available on the App Store and Google Play worldwide, with the exception of mainland China, Vietnam and Belgium.