'Call of Duty: Warzone' Has Gained 60 Million Players Since Launch

Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) venerable Call of Duty franchise isn't too old to learn some new tricks. On Tuesday, the video game developer announced surprisingly strong first-quarter sales growth, in part because players flocked to many of its core titles as stay-at-home time surged.

Revenue landed at $1.8 billion compared to the company's $1.6 billion forecast. Management credited the new Warzone release, the franchise's first big move into the battle royale genre, for helping lift results. "The launch of Warzone really took the franchise to new highs," executives said in a conference call with investors while revealing 60 million players had engaged with the game since its March 10 launch.

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