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The latest weekly U.K. video-game sales data are here, and Ubisoft's (OTC: UBSF.Y)Assassin's Creed Valhalla has scored a notable win. The new game managed to outperform Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI)Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War in the tracking week.

Activision's annual Call of Duty releases typically go on to be among the year's best-selling games, so Valhalla outperforming it in any slice of the overall market is a notable achievement. Prior to last week, Call of Duty games had claimed the top U.K. sales spot in the week of their release for 13 years running.

© Activision Blizzard Characters holding and firing weapons in Activision Blizzard's latest Call of Duty game.

What does it mean for Ubisoft and Activision?

With games increasingly sold through digital downloads, tracking data that only include physical retail sales have lost much of their significance, but there are still important takeaways from the most recent data out of the U.K. More than being a warning sign for Activision, the data represent good news for Ubisoft and point to a resurgence for one of the company's key properties.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla registered twice the number of online players than its immediate series predecessor, Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The newest entry in the series looks like it will be a major win for Ubisoft.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will likely still outsell Assassin's Creed Valhalla when digital downloads and sales from other markets are factored in. Following Cold War's release, Activision Blizzard stated that the game had generated more first-day sales than any other title in the series' history and also posted record digital sales.

With big game launches from companies including Activision and Ubisoft, and new console launches from Sony and Microsoft, it's shaping up to be a record quarter for the gaming industry.

Keith Noonan owns shares of Activision Blizzard. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Activision Blizzard. The Motley Fool recommends Ubisoft Entertainment and recommends the following options: long January 2022 $75 calls on Activision Blizzard and short January 2022 $75 puts on Activision Blizzard. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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1979: Four intrepid software programmers made the decision to break from the mold and create something entirely new. Initially called 'Computer Arts, Inc.,' the team pivoted and came up with the idea to combine 'Active' and 'Television,' thus resulting in 'Activision'—the very first independent, third-party console video game developer. Storming shelves with bright colored packaging and visually distinct gameplay, their first breakout title was Pitfall!® in 1982, selling more than 4 million copies.

1991: Allen Adham, Frank Pearce, and Mike Morhaime founded Silicon & Synapse, entirely self-funded including money borrowed from their grandmothers. The company grew, and three years later, changed its name to Blizzard Entertainment, which has since become one of the most popular and beloved video game publishers in the world. In 1994, Blizzard released its first breakthrough hit, a real-time strategy game called Warcraft®: Orcs & Humans.

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1998: Blizzard Entertainment releases StarCraft®, a sci-fi real-time strategy game that would become one of the pinnacle titles of the genre and amass a global fanbase. Featuring a robust multiplayer mode, StarCraft allowed players to compete with or against one another through Blizzard's Battle.net platform. In just three months following its release, 3 million copies of the game sold worldwide.

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2008: Activision and Blizzard merge to bring together the biggest games and best development talent across both console and PC, with franchises including Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and more.

2012: King releases Candy Crush Saga®, which took the mobile gaming world by storm and became one of the highest-grossing mobile game franchises ever created.

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1979: Four intrepid software programmers made the decision to break from the mold and create something entirely new. Initially called 'Computer Arts, Inc.,' the team pivoted and came up with the idea to combine 'Active' and 'Television,' thus resulting in 'Activision'—the very first independent, third-party console video game developer. Storming shelves with bright colored packaging and visually distinct gameplay, their first breakout title was Pitfall!® in 1982, selling more than 4 million copies.

1991: Allen Adham, Frank Pearce, and Mike Morhaime founded Silicon & Synapse, entirely self-funded including money borrowed from their grandmothers. The company grew, and three years later, changed its name to Blizzard Entertainment, which has since become one of the most popular and beloved video game publishers in the world. In 1994, Blizzard released its first breakthrough hit, a real-time strategy game called Warcraft®: Orcs & Humans.

1996: 'We think this internet thing is going to be big,' said the Blizzard technology team. Thus began the development of Battle.net®, the first free online gaming service incorporated directly into the games people were already playing. It was a platform for internet-based gaming, social networking, digital distribution, and digital rights management. Imvu official download. It launched with the release of Blizzard's action-role-playing video game series Diablo®.

1998: Blizzard Entertainment releases StarCraft®, a sci-fi real-time strategy game that would become one of the pinnacle titles of the genre and amass a global fanbase. Featuring a robust multiplayer mode, StarCraft allowed players to compete with or against one another through Blizzard's Battle.net platform. In just three months following its release, 3 million copies of the game sold worldwide.

2003: Activision, together with now-legendary development studio Infinity Ward, released Call of Duty®, a first-person action set in World War II that would go on to become one of the biggest game series of all time. Thanks to the passionate community of Call of Duty players, it was the #1 selling console video game franchise in the U.S. for 11 consecutive years.

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2008: Activision and Blizzard merge to bring together the biggest games and best development talent across both console and PC, with franchises including Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and more.

2012: King releases Candy Crush Saga®, which took the mobile gaming world by storm and became one of the highest-grossing mobile game franchises ever created.

2015: Activision's award-winning Skylanders® franchise—the video game that pioneered the 'toys to life' category by allowing players to use a portal to bring real-life figures into the video game as playable characters—became the 15th top-selling video game franchise of all time, selling 240 million Skylanders toys and generated $3 billion in revenue. The Skylanders series was so successful it generated its very own animated series, 'Skylanders™ Academy'.

2016: Activision Blizzard acquires King to combine some of the best creative talent in games and bring the world together through epic entertainment.

2018: Activision Blizzard Esports evolves the competitive gaming industry with the inaugural season of the Overwatch League™, the first major global professional esports league with 12 city-based teams around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, Seoul, Shanghai, and more.

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2019: Activision brought the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise to mobile, delivering a free-to-play action experience to iOS and Android that brings together the most beloved maps, competitive modes, iconic characters and signature weapons from the series. In the first three months alone, the game saw over 150 million downloads and skyrocketed to the top of the download charts in more than 150 countries and regions.





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