Call of Duty: Ghosts was the best selling PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game for the first quarter of 2014, according to Activision.<\/p>\n
It beat the likes of Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed 4 – both of which were released at the end of 2013.<\/p>\n
Activision publishing boss Eric Hirshberg called it “an important achievement as we establish Call of Duty as the first person action game of choice for the next-gen”. Ghosts was also the second best-selling game across Europe and North America on all platforms for the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n
Although Activision did not reveal the exact sales figures, it is believed that Ghosts sold less that both Black Ops 2 and Modern Warfare 3.<\/p>\n
In other games under the Activision Blizzard banner, World of Warcraft subscribers fell to 7.6 million, but remains the largest subscription based MMORPG in the world.<\/p>\n
Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime revealed upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor had already been pre-purchased over one million times, fuelled by the instant character boost included in a pre-order. It’s due out on\u00a020 December 2014.<\/p>\n
The free-to-play card game\u00a0Hearthstone has done “better than expected” according to Blizzard, with over 10 million registered accounts before the iPad edition launched in April.<\/p>\n
Russian gamer unlocks all WoW achievements<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n