Zombies Chronicles is an expansion for the zombies game in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Zombie Chronicles shuffles new players to a 2-year-old game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision Blizzard said that Zombies Chronicles drove monthly active player growth for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, a two-year old game. The boost in the second quarter ended June 30 showed the value of live operations, or launching new content that boosts existing games.

The company reported that news as part of its second quarter earnings, which beat Wall Street’s expectations. (Activision reported non-GAAP revenues of $1.63 billion and earnings per share of 55 cents, compared to expectations of $1.22 billion in revenues and 30 cents a share in non-GAAP earnings). During that quarter, the video game giant launched only one new game, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, on the very last day of the quarter on June 30.

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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.