Treyarch
CompanyUnited States
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On Steam
Steam estimates as of 9 Oct 2026. Revenue is premium revenue on Steam only: game sales, without DLC.
- Revenue as developer
- $1.25B
- 8 games
- Units sold
- 44.1M
- as publisher or developer
- Headquarters
- United States
Treyarch’s best-selling games on Steam
| Game | Released | Share of the best seller | Revenue | Units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call of Duty®Developer | 2022 | $651.5M | 23.5M | |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIDeveloper | 2015 | $192.1M | 6.6M | |
| Call of Duty: Black OpsDeveloper | 2010 | $179.0M | 6.7M | |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops IIDeveloper | 2012 | $165.6M | 4.2M | |
| Call of Duty: World at WarDeveloper | 2008 | $30.7M | 2.2M | |
| Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold WarDeveloper | 2023 | $22.8M | 713K | |
| Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6Developer | 2026 | $9.6M | 203K | |
| Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® IIDeveloper | 2022 | $509K | 9,090 |
Documents about Treyarch
The News After Sharma's First 100 Days
The recent leadership changes and strategic shifts at Xbox, occurring during Asha Sharma’s first 100 days, signal a fundamental transition for the division.
- Microsoft is restructuring Xbox toward a leaner, more profitable model by prioritizing high-impact intellectual property over smaller, niche projects and reducing its first-party studio profile.
- Leadership is exploring the potential divestiture of the Xbox division into an independent entity supported by private equity or sovereign wealth funds.
- The strategic pivot shifts Xbox from a platform-management approach to a platform-operator model focused specifically on daily active users and long-term financial profitability.
Microsoft Lowers Game Pass Prices, Drops Call of Duty from Day-One Offerings
Microsoft has implemented a strategic restructuring of its Game Pass subscription service, characterized by a global price reduction and a significant shift in its content release strategy.
- Microsoft has reduced the monthly price of Game Pass Ultimate from 29.99 to 22.99 and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99.
- New Call of Duty titles will no longer be available on Game Pass at launch, with releases now delayed until the holiday season of the following year.
- The price reduction follows internal assessments that the previous subscription costs were prohibitively expensive, occurring just six months after a major price hike.
XDefiant’s Audience Overlap with Overwatch 2 and Call of Duty
This analysis examines the audience overlap between the newly released title XDefiant and established first-person shooter franchises, specifically Call of Duty and Overwatch 2.
- 52.6% of viewers who watch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 also watch XDefiant, confirming significant audience overlap between the two titles.
- One-third of Overwatch 2 viewers have watched XDefiant, indicating that XDefiant’s class-based mechanics successfully attract players from the hero-shooter genre.
- XDefiant differentiates itself from Call of Duty by operating as an immortal live-service game that retains player progress indefinitely, whereas Call of Duty resets progress with annual releases.
The Rust Programming Language for Game Tooling
Rust serves as a highly effective bridge between the rapid development cycles of high-level languages like Python and the raw performance capabilities of C++, making it an ideal choice for modern game tooling.
- Rust provides a performance-oriented alternative to C++ while maintaining memory safety, as demonstrated by a Treyarch image-packing tool that experienced only two crashes over a three-year period.
- The language eliminates common development risks such as multi-threaded data races and memory corruption through static memory safety and compile-time validation.
- Rust’s ecosystem enhances developer productivity through integrated tools like the Cargo package manager and utilities for serialization, error handling, and CLI development.
Call of Duty Kills Game Dev Work/Life Balance | Games ReCAP Episode 011
The annual release cycle of the Call of Duty franchise creates a systemic culture of burnout, characterized by prolonged periods of mandatory overtime and poor project management.
- The annual release cycle of the Call of Duty franchise forces development teams at studios like Treyarch into 18-month stretches of seven-day work weeks.
- Systemic reliance on mandatory overtime and poor project management has led to significant failures, such as the late-stage cancellation of the Black Ops 4 single-player campaign.
- High employee turnover caused by burnout results in a critical loss of institutional knowledge within major development studios.