You Can Now Play Call of Duty On Ubisoft+, Because The Industry Is Weird

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Written By NLM Team

If I told you three years ago that you would be launching Call of Duty via a Ubisoft subscription service, you would have told me to check my carbon monoxide detector.

Yet, here we are. The first wave of Activision Blizzard titles has officially landed on Ubisoft+ Premium.

This is the direct result of that messy, year-long legal drama where Microsoft had to sell the cloud streaming rights of Activision games to Ubisoft to appease UK regulators. It was a bizarre deal at the time, and now we are finally seeing what it actually looks like in practice.

As of today, you can stream some of the biggest franchises in the world through Ubisoft's cloud platform.

The Starting Lineup

Ubisoft isn't starting small. They have dropped four heavy hitters right out of the gate. This isn't the "bottom of the barrel" selection. It is the stuff people actually play.

The Shooters:

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

The Platformers:

  • Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

  • Spyro Reignited Trilogy

It is a solid list. Getting the latest CoD (well, the one before Black Ops 6) and the remastered trilogies of the PS1 icons adds significant value to the service. If you are a Ubisoft+ subscriber mostly for Assassin's Creed and Far Cry, getting Spyro as a bonus is a nice perk.

How It Actually Works (The Cloud Catch)

Before you get too excited, there is a catch. This is part of the Ubisoft+ Premium tier, which costs $17.99 a month.

More importantly, this is focused on cloud streaming. These games are integrated with NVIDIA GeForce NOW. This means you aren't downloading them natively to your Ubisoft Connect launcher like you would Rainbow Six Siege. You are streaming them from the cloud.

Chris Early, Ubisoft's SVP of Strategic Partnerships, said this is about "delivering amazing experiences wherever players choose to play." Translation: We own the streaming rights, so we are going to monetize them on every device capable of opening a browser.

Is It Worth It?

If you already have Xbox Game Pass, this is completely redundant. Microsoft owns these games now. Crash, Spyro, and CoD are slowly trickling into the Game Pass ecosystem natively.

However, if you are a cloud-only gamer who relies on GeForce NOW or Amazon Luna, this is a massive win. Ubisoft+ just became the only way to stream these titles across multiple devices without owning an Xbox.

It is still weird to see Captain Price sitting next to Ezio Auditore on the same billing, but welcome to the new corporate dystopia of 2025.

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