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Activision lost millions of players, next year’s Call of Duty delayed

Inside Gaming Roundup

Activision lost millions of players, next year’s Call of Duty delayed

Inside Gaming Roundup

2022 Episode 33 August 6, 2022

Go to http://manscaped.com and use ROUNDUP to get 20% off your order. Activision Blizzard has been losing millions of players and now it looks like for the first time in about 20 years Call of Duty will be skipping a year. Watch this week’s Weekend Roundup for the full context! In other news; Halo Infinite scaled back, EA loves single-player games now, a mobile World of WarCraft game was canceled, and Sony ditches a PS5 feature. This week's 5-Second Review is for a very specific audience and the Coming Soon section encourages cult-like behavior… but also heralds another great PlayStation exclusive coming to PC. Thanks for watching everyone and have a great weekend! 00:00 - Activision lost millions of players, next year’s Call of Duty delayed 06:56 - Halo Infinite’s world ‘scaled back’ 07:50 - EA voices support for single-player games 08:59 - Mobile WoW canceled 09:43 -Sony ditching PS5 accolades 10:21 - 5-Second Review 10:42 - Coming Soon Listen and subscribe to Ship Hits the Fan at https://bit.ly/shiphitsthefan Buy our shirt! https://is.gd/u3xCtA OR follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/briangaar https://twitter.com/DarthBurrit0 http://twitter.com/InsideGaming SOURCES [IGN] Activision Blizzard loses millions of players https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-blizzard-loses-millions-of-players-but-adds-25-more-develope… [VGC] Diablo Immortal player spends 100k but can’t access PvP https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/diablo-immortal-player-says-hes-lost-access-to-pvp-games-af… [Metacritic] Call of Duty Vanguard Metacritic https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/call-of-duty-vanguard [IGN] Call of Duty Vanguard underperformance blames setting https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-call-of-duty-vanguard-underperforming-blames-ww2 [VGC] Activision active player numbers fall below 100 million https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/activisions-active-player-base-falls-below-100-million-for-… [Bloomberg] Activision to delay planned Call of Duty game https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-22/activision-to-delay-next-year-s-planned-call-of-d… [Eurogamer] Diablo Immortal slows Activision player exodus https://www.eurogamer.net/diablo-immortal-launch-turns-around-two-year-trend-of-tumbling-blizzard-pl… [TecRadar] Halo Infinite open world scaled back https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/halo-infinites-open-world-underwent-significant-scaling-back-for-l… [VGC] EA says single-player games are cool now https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-says-single-player-games-are-a-really-important-part-of-… [Bloomberg] Blizzard and Netease cancel a mobile World of WarCraft game https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-netease-scrap-warcraft-mobile-game-after-financing-dispute-1.18… [PushSquare] Sony ending PS5 accolades feature https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/07/sony-discontinuing-ps5-accolades-as-no-one-used-them [PlayStation] Official PlayStation support page about PS5 accolades trailer https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/important-notice/

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Next Season

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