Activision recently made the call to shift Toys for Bob’s focus to theCall of Duty: Warzonebattle royale, pointing yet another one of its studios at the mega-popular franchise. WithCall of Dutyconsistently being the top-selling video game released in any given year, it makes sense that Activision is investing so much of its resources into it, but regardless, some may still be surprised at just how many studios are actively working onCoD.
As pointed out by CharlieIntel on Twitter, theCall of Dutyfranchise has at least nine developers actively working on main seriesCall of Dutycontent. This includesCall of Duty’s lead development studios Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, and Treyarch, along with a variety of other Activision-owned studios providing support. And that’s not even countingCall of Duty Mobile, which is developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios.
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Raven Software was just recently allowed totake the lead onCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s campaignand is currently handlingCall of Duty: Warzone. Previously, Raven Software was yet another one of the franchise’s support studios, joined by Beenox, High Moon Studios, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, and the latest studio to join the lineup, Toys for Bob.
Beenox has been assisting on the development ofCall of Dutysince the release ofCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, whereas High Moon Studios has been assisting on the franchise since2014’sCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Before it was assigned to assist on the development of theCall of Dutyfranchise, High Moon Studios made games likeDarkwatch,Deadpool, and perhaps most famously,Transformers: War for CybertronandFall of Cybertronvideo games.
Prior to being relegated to theCall of Dutyfranchise, Beenox was perhaps best known for developing licensed games, like various Activision-publishedSpider-Mantitles and even theBee Moviegame adaptation. Compared to some of the other studios assisting inCall of Duty’s development, Beenox has been given an arguably more noteworthy role, as it was in charge ofoptimizing theCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarPC port.
Activision reassigning its various studios to focus on other things is not a new practice in the slightest and it happens with other franchises as well. For example, after Vicarious Visions launchedTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, the studio was sent to Blizzard todevelop the upcomingDiablo 2: Resurrectedgame.
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