Call of Duty official board game (opens in new tab) It will be released in 2024, following a Kickstarter campaign starting later this year.
The Call of Duty Board Game will, as promised in the press ad, “bring the acclaimed Call of Duty experience to the tabletop.” Players become elite Operators, engaging in combat with distinctive weapons and unique combat skills. An exciting series of iconic maps, a variety of intense game modes, and team-based objectives let players blast their enemies through the game’s intuitive action system. “
I’m not sure how a board game captures the thrill of 360-degree no-scope, or if that’s what gets your blood pumping.But what’s really baffling about the whole thing (for me anyway) is what it has to do on Kickstarter. is on the verge (opens in new tab) Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It’s a veritable money truck convoy. Still need a crowdfunding campaign somehow?
The Call of Duty board game is being developed by tabletop game company Arcane Wonders, which requires a Kickstarter campaign, said president Robert Geistlinger. polygon (opens in new tab).
“It’s pretty common for board games to be crowdfunded. Of course, this is an officially licensed game made here at Arcane Wonders,” said Geistlinger. “The Activision team has been a great partner, allowing us to create and play in their worlds, but at the end of the day, this is the experience we offer gamers, and that team has been kind to me. They’ve allowed us to use whatever they feel they need the tools and platform to make the best version of the game for their fans.”
I don’t know the terms of the deal, but I’m not talking about non-commercial licenses like the one sometimes used in fan-made projects (opens in new tab)As an official Call of Duty product, we have to assume that Activision’s involvement goes deeper than a simple “Yes, please” from Bobby Kotick. Kickstarter has opened the door to mainstream success for small studios and unknown projects of all kinds. insail (opens in new tab), obsidian (opens in new tab), Larian (opens in new tab), crate entertainment (opens in new tab), night dive (opens in new tab)and others, really rub me the wrong way to see that system turned into a marketing machine for multi-billion dollar behemoths.
Modern Warfare 2 reboot is here in case you forgot $800 million (opens in new tab) One weekend in November 2022.
But as Geistlinger said, that’s the way it’s done these days. (opens in new tab)Wolfenstein (opens in new tab)and Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab)All of these campaigns were hugely successful and I have no doubt that the Call of Duty board game will be just as successful.
