Call of Duty: Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale video game developed by Raven Software and Infinity Ward, and published by Activision. The game was released on March 10, 2020, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One as a part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and was subsequently connected to 2020’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and 2021’s Call of Duty: Vanguard, but does not require purchase of any of the aforementioned titles. Warzone allows online multiplayer combat among 150 players and features both cross-platform play and cross-platform progression between the three aforementioned titles. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Boldi, Arianna. “About the Blurring of Work and Play: Organizational Dynamics Emerging in a First-Person Shooter Videogame.” In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 237-240. 2022.
Boldi, Arianna. ““Come on, Guys, Let’s Stick Together!”: Organizational Dynamics Emerging among Players in a First-Person Shooter Video Game.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, pp. 374-377. 2022.
Boldi, Arianna, and Amon Rapp. ““Is It Legit, To You?”. An Exploration of Players’ Perceptions of Cheating in a Multiplayer Video Game: Making Sense of Uncertainty.” International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (2023): 1-21.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Bernevega, Alexander, and Alex Gekker. “The industry of landlords: Exploring the assetization of the triple-A game.” Games and Culture 17, no. 1 (2022): 47-69.
Other games in the franchise
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (1)
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (1)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2)
Call of Duty: World at War (1)
Call of Duty 3 (1)