Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best selling games of all times

According to the latest figures Call of Duty: Black Ops became the best selling game in the United States with 13.7 million units sold across all platforms in five month since it was released. The video game made over $1 billion before the year end when it was launched in 2010.

Interestingly, many observers and analysts highly criticized the franchise accusing Activision of practicing its old threadbare scheme of continuously updating old games until they get boring. In spite of this fact Black Ops remained on top of the game charts on both side of the Atlantic. Latest NPD's statistical reports show Black Ops has surpassed Wii Play to become the top selling game of all time in the US.

Meantime, critics address their disaffection to the head of Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who is seen as a destabilising figurehead that will force regular year-on-year releases of the franchise until it becomes unbearable citing Guitar Hero as a bright illustration of such a dull policy.

On the other hand, Dice, developers of the Battlefield series has criticised Activision's effort saying the company has become lazy and warning that Battlefield 3 will blow CoD out the water. Thats fightin' talk.

In the latest edition of PlayStation magazine, Dice manager Karl-Magnus Troedsson said Activision is "using the same engine, the same recipe for building a game. At some point you need to take that leap. I haven't seen them take that leap since a long time ago. We are doing that now. They had better watch out. We are coming for them."