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Activision Blizzard has announced that it is bringing hit <keyword id="588673" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="battle-royale" source="Orion">battle royale</keyword> shooter 'Call of Duty: <keyword id="86236" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="warzone" source="Orion">Warzone</keyword>' to mobile phones. The mobile version of Warzone appears to be in the early stages of development. "We are seeking skilled operators in all aspects of game development. This large-scale, battle royale experience is being built natively for mobile with cutting-edge technology designed to entertain gamers around the world for many years to come," the company said in a statement. "From production roles to engineering, design, art, marketing, and more, we're looking for game-makers, passionate fans, and genuinely awesome people to join our diverse team, inspired to deliver the next world-class mobile gaming experience to fans," the brand added. Activision also offers Call of Duty: Mobile, which it developed in partnership with Tencent-owned <keyword id="11033970" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="timi-studios" source="Orion">TiMi Studios</keyword>. The publisher is also actively working on a "new Warzone experience" coming later this year. The free-to-play and cross platform experience, Call of Duty: Warzone, is available to download for free. One does not need to own the full version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to download, play and enjoy Warzone. Call of Duty: Warzone is free for everyone. Warzone is a massive combat arena, set in the expansive and dense city of Verdansk, where up to 200 players can battle for victory, across two distinct epic modes of play, Battle Royale and Plunder. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/iphone-se-3-ipad-air-5th-gen-mac-studio-price-in-india/articleshow/90092166.cms">Here’s how much the new iPhone SE, iPad Air 5th gen and Mac Studio will cost in India</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/carl-peis-nothing-raises-70-million-ahead-of-its-march-23-event-rumoured-nothing-smartphone-could-be-officially-announced/articleshow/90100532.cms">Carl Pei’s Nothing raises $70 million ahead of its March 23 event – rumoured Nothing smartphone could be officially announced</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/samsung-galaxy-s22-series-pixel-6-affected-by-severe-dirty-pipe-vulnerability-that-lets-hackers-intercept-whatsapp-messages-sms-and-more/articleshow/90120028.cms">Samsung Galaxy S22 series, Pixel 6 affected by severe ‘Dirty Pipe’ vulnerability that lets hackers intercept WhatsApp messages, SMS and more</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="11121339" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="metaverse" source="Orion">Metaverse</keyword>" has become a buzzword with <keyword id="11892960" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook" source="Orion">Facebook</keyword> reportedly planning a name change to reflect its focus on the concept.</li><li>Chinese tech giants are also eyeing the metaverse.</li></ul>Social media giant Facebook has thrust the metaverse into the limelight, reportedly going as far as planning to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/latest-news-facebook-changing-name-metaverse-focus-2021-10">change its name</a> to reflect its focus on the concept.The tech buzzword refers to shared virtual spaces that people can access via the internet using VR and AR devices, and it has captured the <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-facebook-and-everyone-else-are-building-the-metaverse-but-will-you-want-to-live-there/">attention of tech titans</a> including <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/converging-the-physical-and-digital-with-digital-twins-mixed-reality-and-metaverse-apps/">Microsoft</a>.But it's not just Facebook and Silicon Valley: China's tech giants have also been working on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-metaverse-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-roblox-animal-crossing-2021-8">futuristic concept.</a><keyword id="6357332" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gaming" source="Orion">Gaming</keyword> giant Tencent is set to sharpen focus on developments in the metaverse space with a new gaming studio under subsidiary TiMi Studios, the <a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3153035/tencent-said-sharpen-focus-metaverse-developments-advanced-new-gaming">South China Morning Post</a> reported on Thursday.A TiMi Studios spokesperson confirmed to Insider the set-up of a new global game development studio, F1 Studio.The spokesperson said the company has "no intention to discuss any trendy words," but is "dedicated to the exploration of the future form of gaming.""An open world game, on console and PC, is currently a strategic priority," the spokesperson added.TikTok owner ByteDance is also seen to be taking steps into the space with the acquisition of VR startup <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/tiktok-owner-bytedance-acquires-pico-and-takes-first-step-into-virtual-reality.html">Pico Interactive.</a>ByteDance told Insider that it's "optimistic about the future of VR."Ecommerce giant Alibaba, too, has joined the fray by registering several trademarks - including "Ali Metaverse" - related to the buzzword, according to <a href="https://kr-asia.com/alibaba-subsidiary-applies-for-a-slew-of-metaverse-trademarks-after-patent-troll-strikes">tech media reports</a> last month that cited database information. Alibaba did not immediately respond to an Insider request for comment.Other Chinese tech firms starting to jostle in the space include short-video-app owner Kuaishou, video-streaming service iQiyi, and electric-carmaker Li Auto, the <a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/major-chinese-tech-firms-already-095334429.html">AFP reported.</a>It's a race to the forefront of the space, which <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/thekantoarbot/status/1389390250221334529">Bloomberg Intelligence</a> estimates could be worth $800 billion by 2024. Officially though, China may not be so enthusiastic about the metaverse. Last month, state-owned media outlet <a href="https://stock.stcn.com/djjd/202109/t20210909_3665683.html">Security Times</a> cautioned against investing in the concept, which is still in its infancy."Investment is not a virtual game," warned the report. "Blindly investing into such grand and illusionary concepts such as the metaverse may ultimately come back to hurt your pockets."

It's not just Facebook - China's big tech firms like Alibaba and Tencent are also piling into the metaverse

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Alibaba has led a $60 million funding round for augmented reality tech startup Nreal.</li><li>AR glasses like those made by Beijing-based Nreal are crucial to exploring the <keyword id="11121339" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="metaverse" source="Orion">metaverse</keyword>.</li></ul>Alibaba has led a $60 million investment round into augmented-reality glasses maker Nreal, a sign the Chinese <keyword id="11893017" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="technology" source="Orion">technology</keyword> giant is delving deeper into the metaverse."We aim to support entrepreneurship and encourage technology innovation," an Alibaba spokesperson told Insider when asked about the news. Beijing-based Nreal said Wednesday it has now raised a total of $200 million after closing the series C+ round. It did not disclose which other investors were involved in the latest fundraising. AR technology, like the Light and Air glasses Nreal develops, is key to enabling people to get immersed in the virtual worlds that make up the metaverse.Alibaba has already started staking its place in the metaverse by registering several trademarks, including Ali Metaverse. It has also invested at least $1 billion in AR and virtual reality start-ups in recent years, <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Startups/Alibaba-leads-60m-funding-round-for-smart-glasses-maker-Nreal">Nikkei Asia</a> reported.Investment in metaverse-linked companies is rising. In the last quarter of 2021 alone, almost $1.9 billion of venture capital funding went to AR and VR start-ups, according to Crunchbase <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/news/metaverse-augmented-reality-virtual-reality-investment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">data</a>. Alibaba isn't the only <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-facebook-china-big-tech-alibaba-tencent-2021-10">Chinese tech giant</a> to dive in. Gaming giant Tencent in October sharpened its metaverse focus with a new TiMi Studios gaming studio. The metaverse market is expected to grow over 20% this year, before exploding more than 1,300% by 2030, according to <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1295784/metaverse-market-size/#statisticContainer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Statista research</a>. In 2022, its estimated size will be $47.48 billion, and $678.8 billion within eight years, the research house said.Nreal, founded in 2017, has signed partnerships with <a href="https://www.nio.com/blog/virtualaugmented-real-nios-vision-enjoyment">electric vehicle companies</a> and video-streaming services. It said it will use the $60 million funding injection for research and development, and accelerate its expansion into new <keyword id="11893875" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="markets" source="Orion">markets</keyword>.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/altcoin-investing-ftx-crypto-ventures-blockchain-layer-bets-amy-wu-2022-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amy Wu heads up FTX's monster $2 billion venture operation. She breaks down the big bets they are making for a cross-chain future — and why GameFi will become a niche category for crypto whales</a>

Alibaba makes a metaverse move by leading a $60 million funding round into AR glasses maker Nreal

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11893898" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crypto" source="Orion">Crypto</keyword> exchange <keyword id="11896045" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="binance" source="Orion">Binance</keyword> said Tuesday its venture capital arm has invested in blockchain game startup Star <keyword id="11970102" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sharks" source="Orion">Sharks</keyword>.</li><li>Players can own, trade and mate the underlying <keyword id="11976459" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shark" source="Orion">shark</keyword> NFTs as they compete in its game's metaverse. </li><li>The Star Sharks makers' games have drawn in 1 million players a day and are part of the growing crypto gaming space.</li></ul>Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, is backing a blockchain game startup's shark metaverse as interest in virtual worlds becomes more mainstream. Its venture capital arm and incubator Binance Labs has placed a "strategic investment" of just under $1 million in Star Sharks, the company told Insider. Star Sharks's first game enables players to compete for rewards by trading and even mating the pet sharks they own, in the form of underlying shark non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on a 3D mobile platform. Players in "Starsharks.Warriors" join forces to build and run a new shark-metaverse as a community, according to Binance Labs. It is set to debut this month.Built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchain, the decentralized game reflects a growing interest in the metaverse, as with Facebook's recent decision to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-name-meta-rebrand-metaverse-zuckerberg-apps-2021-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">change</a> its corporate name to "Meta." A metaverse is a virtual space where people can interact digitally using avatars. "After launching their GameFi platform on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), we believe that Star Sharks will be an important contributor to the development of the gaming sector and therefore benefit all users in the BSC ecosystem," Chase Guo, investment director at Binance Labs, was quoted as saying in a <a href="https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684902988/ecosystem/binance-labs-makes-strategic-investment-in-star-sharks-to-grow-the-bsc-ecosystem">company statement</a>. Binance Labs said its investment would help expand the gaming sector on its BSC network. It launched the <a href="https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/an-introduction-to-binance-smart-chain-bsc">BSC network</a> for decentralized, peer-to-peer applications in October last year. The team behind Star Sharks came in part from Timi Studio Group, whose games have pulled in more than 1 million users a day within three months, and from <keyword id="11892740" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="google" source="Orion">Google</keyword>.<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/play-to-earn-crypto-gamefi-nft-games-axie-infinity-huobi-2021-10">GameFi</a>, where decentralized finance meets the gaming industry, is pulling a lot of attention from the crypto community and from the biggest gaming guilds in the sector. Its business model often allows players to obtain a share of the dividends brought in from game development, with their most common feature being "play to earn". Ethereum-based game "Axie Infinity" is one of the most popular GameFi projects.In the Star Sharks first game, those who refer new players will get tokens based on the activity rewards of the people they have referred.

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<ul><li>Call of Duty records 100 million downloads within the first week of its launch. </li><li>This is five-times the amount of downloads that PUBG and Fornite were able to garner in their first seven days.</li><li>Consumer spending on Call of Duty till $17.7 million.</li></ul>PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds (PUBG) and <keyword id="3203281" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Fortnite">Fortnite</keyword> are two of the biggest mobile games. And, they have a new competitor to face off against — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/call-of-duty-mobile-by-tencent-pubg-game-publisher/articleshow/68491842.cms">Call of Duty, the legendary PC game.</a> Call of Duty was once the world’s biggest entertainment franchise and now is taking over <keyword id="906162" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mobile-gaming">mobile gaming</keyword> too. It was downloaded over 100 million times within a week of its mobile launch, according to Sensor Tower’s <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/call-of-duty-mobile-by-tencent-pubg-game-publisher/articleshow/68491842.cms">blog post</a>. This is the highest that any mobile game has ever seen. India was the second most popular destination for the game after the US, accounting for 13.4% of the downloads. <keyword id="7445288" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="call-of-duty-mobile">Call of Duty Mobile</keyword> sets a new record Call of Duty’s 100 million downloads is nearly five times the amount of downloads that PUBG and Fornite got in their first week. A little more than half of Call of Duty’s downloads came from iOS, while Android accounted for 44.3% of unique installs. Fornite’s reach was limited since it only launched on iOS. <keyword id="6409600" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="PUBG-MOBILE">PUBG Mobile</keyword>, on the other hand, launched on iOS and Android. Even then, it was only able to garner 28 million downloads in its first week. The closest that any other game has come to Call of Duty’s record is <keyword id="6200199" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="mario-kart-tour">Mario Kart Tour</keyword>, which raced to 90 million downloads in the first seven days. Call of Duty’s original developers, Activision, partnered with Tencent’s Timi Studio to develop the mobile version. The game also performed well in terms of consumer spending. Its revenue collection out paced PUBG and Fornite hitting $17.7 million. This means for every download, the game was earning $0.17 on an average. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/call-of-duty-mobile-by-tencent-pubg-game-publisher/articleshow/68491842.cms">Call of Duty might be brought back to its glory days by publishers behind PUBG</a>

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