Black Ops 6 reportedly cost Activision $700 million to develop, with Black Ops 3 and Modern Warfare 2019's budgets also revealed via court documents.

Black Ops 6 witnesses an over 30% drop in its player count on PC as fans highlight factors that led to the massive decline.

The budget figures were disclosed in December 2024 court filings related to ongoing lawsuits against Activison and Meta, which accuse the companies of "grooming" the shooter who killed 19 students in the May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde,

The astronomical development budgets of the Call of Duty games were revealed for the first time after a court document confirmed Activision pumped $700 million into Black Ops Cold War alone. First reported by Game File,

Activision has disclosed the budgets for its recent Call of Duty games, revealing them to be some of the most expensive video games ever created—at least among those with publicly known figures. Unlike the film industry,

Between development costs and marketing, it feels like budgets for massive AAA games keep getting bigger, and the price tags behind three semi-recent Call of Duty games offer pretty good evidence to support that.

Talk about how expensive it is to make a AAA game for modern consoles has been a major talking point over the last several years while the industry has faced re