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Activision has confirmed that the makers of Black Ops are doing this year’s COD, as they also announce another Skylanders.

It may have been exactly what everyone already expected, but Activision has confirmed that World At War and Black Ops creator Treyarch are making this year’s Call Of Duty.

A new Call Of Duty is usually announced in May, so there were no real details, but Activision promised it would be ‘loaded with innovation’. Although a sequel to WWII game World At War has been widely rumoured there’s little evidence for it so far, and Black Ops III or a new sub-franchise is still possible.



Predictions of the game’s sales were relatively conservative though, with Activision saying merely that it expected sales to be ‘consistent’ with last year’s Advanced Warfare. Sales of the franchise are believed have to be in decline for the last two years, although the franchise has still remained the number one game in North America for the last six years in a row.


Is this leaked road map for Destiny accurate?

When it came to Destiny it seems yet again that most of the details had already leaked out ahead of time. Activision appeared to confirm rumours of a ‘major content release’ later this year, that is not House Of Wolves, with developer Bungie also hinting of something big in autumn.

This is exactly what was rumoured back in January, with a disc-based expansion supposedly called Comet: Plague Of Darkness. Allegedly it will contain 12 new story missions, four new Strikes, one new Raid, six new Crucible multiplayer maps, and a new location in a Hive ship.

Activision’s comments don’t mean all the details of the rumours are true, but it certainly sounds like a similar kind of idea.

The other big announcement was a new Skylanders game, which is almost as predictable as a new Call Of Duty. The new game will be developed by Vicarious Visions, who made 2013’s Swap Force – which we thought was notably better than last year’s Trap Team, by series creators Toys For Bob.

Skylanders: Trap Team – unsurprisingly there will be another one

Despite speculation that Disney Infinity had overtaken the franchise in recent years, Activision claim that Skylanders was still the ‘#1 top‐selling kids console game globally’, and has been for the last three years.

Although Activision wouldn’t reveal sales figures for any of its games it did announce that Destiny has 16 million registered users and that Blizzard’s free-to-play Hearthstone has over 40 million.

‘Combined, these franchises attracted over 40 million registered players worldwide and generated more than $850 million in non‐GAAP revenue,’ said Activision CEO Bobby Kotick.

Overall the last three months were good for Activision Blizzard, with quarterly sales of $1.58 billion (an improvement on $1.52 billion last year). Full year sales though are down, from $5.58 billion in 2013 to $4.41 billion in 2014.

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