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Activision Blizzard owns the Call of Duty and StarCraft franchises, both of which have been popular as esports. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] On October 21, 2015, Activision Blizzard announced the upcoming establishment of a new esports division. [ 88 ]
Call of Duty is a military first-person shooter video game series and media franchise published by Activision, starting in 2003.The games were first developed by Infinity Ward, then by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games.
The CMA has recommended that Activision should at least divest the Call of Duty franchise. [94] However, following Microsoft's commitments to ensure the release of Call of Duty on multiple platforms for ten years, in association with meeting other regulatory bodies, the CMA changed its stance by late March 2023. In its new statement, the CMA ...
Microsoft, which bought Activision Blizzard in a $69 billion deal last year, said insider Matt Cox has taken over the role of senior vice president and general manager of Call of Duty, effective ...
Into the 2020s, Activision put more focus on the Call of Duty franchise, including the release of the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone in 2020. By April 2021, the company had assigned all of its internal studios to work on some part of the Call of Duty franchise. [ 59 ]
Respawn Entertainment, LLC is an American video game development studio founded in 2010 by Jason West and Vince Zampella and owned by Electronic Arts since 2017. West and Zampella previously co-founded Infinity Ward and created the Call of Duty franchise, where they were responsible for its development until 2010.
Sledgehammer Games spent six to eight months working on the Call of Duty project in 2009, enough to produce a prototype with about 15 minutes of play. [11] The game would have reportedly expanded the franchise into the action-adventure genre, and a legal battle between Infinity Ward , the studio behind the Modern Warfare franchise, and co ...
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