Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest entertainment launch ever. Its multiplayer and Zombies mode dominated Xbox Live and PSN for the following year.
- Developer
- Treyarch
- Publisher
- Activision
- Released
- 9 November 2010
- Platforms
- Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, DS
- Genre
- First-person shooter
- Kind of game
- console
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