Activision Blizzard announced today that the latest Call of Duty title, Modern Warfare 3 has shattered all entertainment records by grossing more than $775 million in its first five days of sales.

This game outsold all movies, books and video games during its initial debut passing its previous games as well.

“Call of Duty: Black Ops,” which grossed $650 million, and
“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” which grossed $550 million.

Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million units in North America and the United Kingdom at an estimated sell-through rate of more than $400 million.

According to Microsoft, more than 3.3 million unique gamers logged seven million multi-player hours with the game by the end of Nov. 8, the first day it was available. At one point, more than 3.3 million concurrent users played the game on Xbox Live.

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Here’s the debut teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops. This game is being developed by Treyarch, the same studio that developed Call of Duty: World at War. This game is looking to be a competitor for DICE’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 which had great success taking away some of the popularity from Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2. Game looks tight, gonna be dropping November 11th, 2010.