Spiketrap: Animal Crossing and Warzone surged on social in different ways

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 27, 2020
Updated June 20, 2025
2 min

Animal Crossing: New Horizons surpassed all other games as the leader in social engagement during March as shelter-in-place rules began, according to data from social media measurement firm Spiketrap. But Call of Duty: Warzone saw a surge in a very different way.

The report is interesting because it shows how huge Animal Crossing was in engagement across social platforms, while Call of Duty: Warzone was strong in terms of hours of gameplay streamed or watched. In other words, people felt like Warzone was a lot more fun to watch, while Animal Crossing was more fun to talk about via tweets, game forum posts, and videos.

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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.