Activision is bringing Call of Duty: Warzone to mobile

Activision is bringing its hit battle royale shooter Name of Responsibility: Warzone to cell phones, the corporate introduced Thursday. “We’re creating an all-new, AAA cellular expertise that can convey the thrilling, fluid and large-scale motion of Name of Responsibility: Warzone to gamers on the go,” Activision mentioned in a submit on its web site.

In accordance with the submit, this cellular Warzone can be a “large-scale, battle royale expertise” that’s constructed “natively for cellular with cutting-edge know-how designed to entertain avid gamers all over the world for a few years to come back.” Nevertheless, it appears as if the sport remains to be early in improvement, because the submit advertises a number of job openings and doesn’t embrace screenshots, video, and even an estimated launch timeframe. Activision additionally hasn’t specified if the sport can be like Apex Legends Cell, which solely permits you to play in opposition to different cellular gamers, or the cellular model of Fortnite, which may do cross-platform play. Activision declined to remark additional.

Cell ports of hit shooters might be extremely profitable, as Activision is aware of from its personal Name of Responsibility: Cell — that recreation, developed in partnership with Tencent-owned TiMi Studios, has surpassed an astonishing $1.5 billion in world lifetime participant spending since its 2019 launch, in keeping with Sensor Tower. With a cellular Warzone, maybe Activision is betting that it will probably make lightning strike twice.

It looks as if there’s potential for one more winner; the corporate can be leveraging the already well-liked Warzone franchise, and different cellular shooters like PUBG: Cell and Garena Free Fireplace are among the many hottest cellular video games round. Although with cellular ports of video games like Riot Video games’ Valorant and EA’s Battlefield on the best way, too, a cellular Warzone can be getting into an more and more aggressive area.

This new cellular Warzone arrives as Activision is making some modifications to the Name of Responsibility franchise. The writer is engaged on a “new Warzone expertise” that’s set to be launched this yr and is reportedly delaying the mainline 2023 Name of Responsibility title. Activision can also be below the highlight attributable to lawsuits and its impending acquisition by Microsoft.