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Activision: Over 250m people played Call of Duty in 2020 News Feb 5th, 2021

Activision: Over 250m people played Call of Duty in 2020

Series had an average of 100m monthly active users for the year

Activision gives 60,000 Call of Duty cheaters the boot News Feb 3rd, 2021

Activision gives 60,000 Call of Duty cheaters the boot

Firm says that monthly security updates, two-factor authentication and in-game reporting systems helped get rid of bad actors

Call of Duty franchise made $3bn in last 12 months News Dec 7th, 2020

Call of Duty franchise made $3bn in last 12 months

Increase or 80 per cent year-on-year

Activision Blizzard hiring for over 2k staff... after firing around 800 Job News Oct 30th, 2020

Activision Blizzard hiring for over 2k staff... after firing around 800

CEO Kotick says it needs more employees to help meet its production demand

Activision has booted another 20k cheaters from COD Warzone News Sep 30th, 2020

Activision has booted another 20k cheaters from COD Warzone

Firm bans players using popular hack called EngineOwning

Activision cuts Tiananmen Square footage from Call of Duty trailer News Aug 26th, 2020

Activision cuts Tiananmen Square footage from Call of Duty trailer

Follows video being banned in China

Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward vows to fight racism News Jun 5th, 2020

Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward vows to fight racism

Developer promises to take action amid #BlackLivesMatter protests across the US and around the world

Hangar13's Wilson joins Sledgehammer Games Job News May 12th, 2020

Hangar13's Wilson joins Sledgehammer Games

New COO says that the studio is still hiring across its various locations

Players are spending twice as much in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare than Black Ops 4 News May 6th, 2020

Players are spending twice as much in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare than Black Ops 4

In part due to the free-to-play Warzone battle royale mode

Report: New Call of Duty: Black Ops game set in Vietnam News Apr 22nd, 2020

Report: New Call of Duty: Black Ops game set in Vietnam

Expected to launch as normal

Activision Blizzard says games production still on track News Apr 15th, 2020

Activision Blizzard says games production still on track

CEO Kotick gave staff his personal email and phone number so they could reach out

50,000 players have been permanently banned from Call of Duty: Warzone News Apr 3rd, 2020

50,000 players have been permanently banned from Call of Duty: Warzone

Looks like Activision isn't messing around when it comes to cheating in-game

Activision wins Humvee Call of Duty lawsuit News Apr 2nd, 2020

Activision wins Humvee Call of Duty lawsuit

Follows trademark infringement suit from 2017

Sledgehammer vet Condrey laments "frustratingly little influence" in aspects of Call of Duty development News Mar 31st, 2020

Sledgehammer vet Condrey laments "frustratingly little influence" in aspects of Call of Duty development

Former studio head says that publisher Activision controlled big parts of the series

Call of Duty battle royale mode Warzone saw 30m players in first 10 days News Mar 23rd, 2020

Call of Duty battle royale mode Warzone saw 30m players in first 10 days

Double the 15m who played it in first four days

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