Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is launching in 2023, and will bring 120-player matches to iOS and Android. The popular battle royale from Activision has garnered hundreds of millions of players, and the mobile market is a natural extension of the player base. The games will have 120 players in a round, with operators, weapons, locations and combat familiar to existing Warzone fans. That’s right, Warzone Mobile will be played in the much-loved Verdansk, which was removed from the main Warzone towards the end of 2021.
Read: Capitec is launching mobile services – its data doesn’t expire
Next month the franchise is launching Warzone 2.0, which will allow players to drop into a whole new map. This means Warzone Mobile is the only place where fans of the series will still be able to drop into Verdansk.
This isn’t the series’ first foray into the mobile market, of course. Call of Duty: Mobile is hugely successful, but this will be the first time the BR mode will make its way to mobile. Activision hasn’t shared details about potential micro-transactions in mobile, but that’ll likely be the case. In-game purchases have been built into Call of Duty: Mobile since its debut in 2019, and that plan seems to have worked out just fine for Activision — the studio has made more than $1.5 billion off of Android and iOS players in less than three years.
Activision wants to unify all the different iterations of its various multiplayer and battle royale games, and Warzone Mobile is a major step in that direction. The publisher is pulling the annual instalment, Warzone and mobile play into one ecosystem with the same underlying technology.
Though the franchise is coming together in new ways, Warzone Mobile will feature mobile-specific playlists, events and content. Activision also promises deep customization options for handheld play.