Frank Woods rides a snowmobile in Call of Duty: Black Ops -- Cold War.
Frank Woods rides a snowmobile in Call of Duty: Black Ops -- Cold War.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War sets digital sales record

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War set a new record for the highest first-day digital sales in the franchise’s history. The game debuted across older and new PlayStation and Xbox consoles and the PC on Friday.

Activision Blizzard’s Anna Malmhake said in a statement on Sunday that the title is releasing into the largest and most-engaged Call of Duty community ever, thanks to the expansion of the franchise in the past year. (Here’s our review of the game.)

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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.