Thanks to the incredibly sharp eye of GameFile’s Stephen Totilo, he managed to dig out the Activision-stated costs of three major Call of Duty games from 2015 to 2020,

Call of Duty is the best-selling game almost every year, but even that might not be enough to keep up with its ever-ballooning blockbuster budgets. New court filings reveal that 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million to make over the life of the game,

Black Ops 6 reportedly cost Activision $700 million to develop, with Black Ops 3 and Modern Warfare 2019's budgets also revealed via court documents.

Three Call of Duty games published between 2015 and 2020 cost almost $2 billion total in development costs, according to a court filing published in December, as first reported by Game File and reviewed by Polygon.

In a new report from Game File, journalist Stephen Totilo has shared the budgets of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Modern Warfare (the 2019 one), and Black Ops Cold War, all of which have reportedly been revealed by Activision 's head of creative for Call of Duty, Patrick Kelly, in a court filing.

Talk about how expensive it is to make a AAA game for modern consoles has been a major talking point over the last several years while the industry has faced re

Activision reveals the massive development budgets of a few Call of Duty games, with some reaching unprecedented figures and setting new records.

Black Ops Cold War' cost $700 million to develop - making the 2020 shooter the most expensive game of all time.