In a press release sent out today, Activision confirmed that it has teamed up with Chinese gaming juggernaut Tencent in order to bring a new Call of Duty mobile game to China. The game is set to be developed by Timi, the studio behind other mobile hits like Arena of Valor and Age of Gunslingers Online and will offer “a fun and original ‘Call of Duty’ experience.” Rob Kostich, the executive vice president and general manager of the Call of Duty franchise says that the game will also deliver “superb gameplay and mechanics to mobile playe
Elaborating on this gameplay slightly, the press release tells players to expect “a collection of beloved Call of Duty characters, maps, modes and weapons from across the franchise.” Unsurprisingly, given that this is a mobile game, Activision also says that the game will be free to play. Presumably, the game will feature some form of microtransactions, though it’s unclear whether it will make use of the controversial microtransaction patents held by the company since last y
China doesn’t have quite the history with the Call of Duty franchise as some parts of the world, largely due to the Chinese government’s aggressive stance of banning video games. Until 2015, all foreign consoles were banned, meaning the vast majority of gamers played either on PC or mobile gaming industry Impact. Once the console ban was lifted, China quickly became the world’s largest market for games, and the free-to-play Call of Duty Online was released exclusively in that country. Even now, the government has a heavy hand in censoring games . Last year, a nine-month freeze on new game releases was put in place while the government reorganized its approval process, and this year the rules for new game approvals were updated to exclude any game that depicts blood or corpses. That means Call of Duty: Mobile is likely to look a lot different from the rest of the franchise elsewhere in the wo
Matches play out as expected with players wing-suiting in from above, scrambling for loot below, and navigating the ever-shrinking map circle. An auto-gather mechanic instantly assigns the best equipment; however, players can still equip items manually if they so choose. Doors open automatically by stepping towards them, and grappling hooks litter the map for quickly zipping around. The vehicle roster features ATV’s, SUV’s, light helicopters, and tactical rafts for additional traversal options. When teammates bite the dust, they can be revived by collecting their fallen dog t
Matches can be played in first- or third-person perspective. Rounds begin with players selecting their classes and loadouts, and Call of Duty: Mobile wisely aims to streamline this process for speedier onboarding. The single, large map boasts a range of topography features from hills to rivers to bridges. It also sprinkles in many familiar sights from previous Call of Duty games like the Nuketown suburbs, Black Ops 4 ’s seaside coast, and the estate from Modern Warfare
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Although the press release says that fans can expect the mobile Call of Duty to release in the “coming months,” Activision hasn’t offered up a specific timeframe for the release. It’s also unclear whether the game may ever make it to the west. While China’s mobile gaming market is especially large (an estimated 582 million people in China will play mobile games this year), the game could also be lucrative if expanded to the global mar
_Call of Duty: Mobile _ made its presence known during GDC 2019, and Activision has announced it will feature its own battle royale mode . The portable version of the popular shooter is coming to iOS and Android presumably this year. Despite the drop in screen size, it aims to retain all of the gameplay and production whistles of the primary ga
Activision states that battle royale is only one of the modes coming to Call of Duty: Mobile . Interested fans in select regions, including North and South America, Europe, and China, can now pre-register to gain access to an impending public beta. Additional regional beta tests will begin in various territories in the coming mon
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Call of Duty publisher Activision already has one major release for the series planned this year, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 set to launch in November . That’s not all that the company is working on regarding its hugely popular shooter series, however, as Activision has now announced a Call of Duty mobile game for the Chinese mar