'Call of Duty Mobile' smashes records with 100m downloads in first week

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NSTlifestyle: The first-person shooter hit’s publisher Activision Blizzard Inc launched CallofDutyMobile on Oct. 1.

"Call of Duty" racked up 100 million downloads in its first week, industry site Sensor Tower said on Tuesday, dwarfing the debuts of previous smashes including"Fortnite" and"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" .

"This is by far the largest mobile game launch in history in terms of the player base that's been built in the first week," said Randy Nelson, head of mobile insights at Sensor Tower. The smash hit is a"first-person-shooter game" that allows gamers to portray elite soldiers hunting down targets in different parts of the world.

"Call of Duty" was developed for mobile by Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, which also has a stake in PUBG's Bluehole and Fortnite's Epic Games and is credited with popularizing the battle-royale format, where dozens of online players battle each other to death.

 

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