Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare main character Jack Mitchell.
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Call of Duty Online launches public open beta in China after years of development

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Call of Duty Online is a big test as to whether the one of the world’s most successful first-person shooter games can succeed in what has become the world’s largest market for games.

Activision and Tencent have launched the free-to-play first-person shooter’s public beta in China. The Call of Duty publisher says that its military franchise has become the world’s largest interactive entertainment, with more than $10 billion in revenue generated to date.

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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.