Call of Duty Mobile celebrates five years and one billion downloads

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Recap: With a caller mainline merchandise successful nan Call of Duty franchise dropping each and each twelvemonth for illustration clockwork, it's easy to hide that there's besides a mobile version successful play. The aptly-named Call of Duty Mobile arrived backmost successful precocious 2019 arsenic a free to play title (with microtransactions) for Android and iOS devices and sewage disconnected to a coagulated start.

The mobile type of CoD was downloaded 270 cardinal times successful its first year, and generated astir $500 cardinal successful gross successful nan process. By May 2021, downloads had topped 500 cardinal and by February 2022, nan crippled had collectively brought successful complete $1.5 billion.

We are now 5 years in, and CoD Mobile is still going strong. In an announcement for nan game's 10th season, Activision said life downloads now beryllium astatine complete 1 billion.

Like nan mainline entries, CoD Mobile is anchored by its multiplayer mode. It features fan-favorite maps and crippled modes from earlier franchise entries, and continues to person a dependable dose of themed events to support players engaged and consenting to unfastened their wallets for in-game purchases.

Season 10, which launches connected November 6 astatine 5 p.m. Pacific, will see a caller Battle Royale representation called Krai that is described arsenic a dense municipality scenery astatine nan guidelines of nan Ural Mountains. There is besides a caller limb up for grabs – a USS 9 SMG – arsenic good arsenic 5 subordinate archetypes, caller limb blueprints, and more.

Playing a first-person shooter connected a mobile instrumentality isn't precisely nan champion measurement to acquisition that type of game, but nan shortcomings tin easy beryllium rectified by bringing a wireless gamepad and a standalone show into nan mix.

If non-mobile is much your jam, CoD: Black Ops 6 sounds for illustration it whitethorn beryllium worthy a look. The recently minted crippled precocious scored nan biggest opening weekend successful Call of Duty history and is 1 of 55 games that has been enhanced for nan caller PlayStation 5 Pro.

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