Call of Duty: Mobile store on Coda.

Activision opens its first Call of Duty: Mobile web store with Coda

In a new era for game distribution, Activision is collaborating with Coda to launch its first Call of Duty: Mobile web store today.

This kind of partnership is possible in part because of legal changes coming to the games industry. The European Union is forcing gatekeeper platforms to allow alternative web stores in European markets. And a jury verdict in favor of Epic Games found that Google had broken antitrust law in trying to prevent Epic and other game companies from opening and promoting alternative app stores.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.