Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII debuts on October 12.
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII debuts on October 12.
Categories

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on PC will use Blizzard’s Battle.net

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will use Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net online gaming service. The switch from Activision’s own service to Blizzard shows increasing cooperation between the Activision and Blizzard sister companies, which the parent Activision Blizzard owns.

The move by Treyarch, the Activision-owned studio developing this year’s Call of Duty game, reflects the growing importance of the PC as a gaming platform, said studio head Mark Lamia in a press briefing. Lamia said that development studio Beenox has a dedicated team “working to build the most robust and customizable PC experience that you have ever seen.”

Unlock premium content and VIP community perks with GB M A X!
Join now to enjoy our free and premium membership perks.
Join Now
Already a member? Sign in
Written by

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.