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

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-developers-year-on-year [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-after-spending-100k-on-microtransactions/ [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-the-first-time-since-2019/ [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-duty-game?sref=xuVirdpv [Eurogamer] Diablo Immortal slows Activision player exodus https://www.eurogamer.net/diablo-immortal-launch-turns-around-two-year-trend-of-tumbling-blizzard-player-numbers [TecRadar] Halo Infinite open world scaled back https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/halo-infinites-open-world-underwent-significant-scaling-back-for-launch [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-its-portfolio/ [Bloomberg] Blizzard and Netease cancel a mobile World of WarCraft game https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-netease-scrap-warcraft-mobile-game-after-financing-dispute-1.1800898 [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/