Activision Blizzard Game Development Wasn T Impacted By Covid At All Says Coo

The impact of COVID on game development has been severe, with a string of delays that hit the release schedule pretty hard recently (and it’s not over yet), but Activision Blizzard doesn’t seem to have been impacted at all.

During the conference call following Q1 2021’s financial report, Daniel Alegre (President and COO of Activision Blizzard) said:

Indeed, we haven’t heard of any game delays from Activision Blizzard so far. On the other hand, Daniel Alegre went ahead to outline the plan to massively increase the headcount of certain development teams.

The current Activision Blizzard release schedule includes Call of Duty 2021 (in development at Sledgehammer), Diablo II: Resurrected, Diablo Immortal, Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, though the latter two games won’t be released this year.

Credits for the conference call transcript go to Seeking Alpha.