Overwatch has over 15 million players

Activision Blizzard’s quarterly results show that Overwatch has 15 million players. Overwatch has also taken the title of fastest-selling PC game in China from Diablo III and is the most popular online title in South Korea.

Players of the multiplayer first person shooter have accumulated about 500 million hours since its introduction. In total, some 491 million gamers spent about 10 billion hours on all Activision Blizzard games during the second quarter, the company says.

Blizzard managed to keep 33 million players glued to their devices with its games. These include Overwatch, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and World of Warcraft. Activision’s games also entertained a large number of people: 49 million playing Call of Duty, Destiny and Skylanders, among others.

The group’s largest addictive sharer is the recently acquired King, maker of mobile games such as Candy Crush and Pet Rescue. Some 409 million people played these small games in the past quarter.