This year, Call of Duty's secret weapon is Steam

Modern Warfare 2 is selling double what the series used to on PC.

Call of Duty is selling big on PC this year. Activision said in a Q3 financial report published today thathas sold"approximately twice the level of recent strong titles in the series." That's a weirdly non-specific qualifier, though it's in contribution to what has become the fastest Call of Duty in history to reach $1 billion in sales.

Modern Warfare 2 is the first Call of Duty to launch on Steam in five years. Starting with Black Ops 4 in 2018, the last four Calls of Duty have only existed in the Battle.net client on PC. Thankfully, Modern Warfare 2 isn't one of those"launches another launcher" deals either: hitting play on Steam gets right into the game.

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