New Call of Duty Mobile game is coming — what you need to know

New Phone call of Duty Mobile game is coming — what you need to know

Playing free-to-play shooter video game Call of Duty: Mobile games on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra flagship smartphone.

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Afterwards the success of Call of Duty: Mobile, Activision is looking to institute its own in-house studio dedicated to mobile gaming. The company is currently hiring more staff to develop a new mobile Call of Duty title.

Call of Duty: Mobile launched in 2019, and skyrocketed programmer TiMi into the upper echelons of games studios, reportedly earning the dev $x billion in revenue last twelvemonth alone (via Reuters). Not content to sit idly by while that kind of cash is floating around, Activision is moving development of its adjacent Call of Duty Mobile game in-firm — and it's hiring.

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A number of task listings take popped up on Activision's website for the new studio, dubbed Activision Mobile. The listings ostend that the first championship will exist a Call of Duty Mobile game for iOS and Android. While based in Santa Monica, CA, Activision has stressed that the new roles will be remote under the current circumstances of the ongoing pandemic.

As with Phone call of Duty: Mobile, Activision is keen to add microtransactions based on the details in the Systems Designer role, which read, "You lot will work directly with the Creative Leaders to conceptualize, implement, and maintain mobile monetization systems, social systems, and arrange designs based off of live information".

The new game is likely to exist free-to-play and, per the listing, "new mobile features, social systems and events for live operations" will be coming to the new handheld title.

The new studio hasn't been announced outside of the listings on the website, but information technology has some pretty lofty goals:

"Nosotros're looking for keen talent from mobile, console and PC backgrounds passionate well-nigh their work, who share our belief in what AAA experiences on mobile can and should be."

Given that Activision is simply just hiring, don't expect to see the new Telephone call of Duty: Mobile game to make an appearance for a while. But we're only a couple of weeks into Call of Duty: Mobile Season 4, so that'll have to tide gamers over in the concurrently.

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Shabana is T3'south News Editor covering tech and gaming, and has been writing about video games for about a decade (and playing them since forever). As well as contributing to Tom'southward Guide, she's had bylines at major gaming sites during her freelance career earlier settling down at T3, and has podcasts, streaming, and video content under her belt to boot. Exterior of piece of work, she besides plays video games and should really think about expanding her hobbies.