Newzoo: Arc Raiders held No. 3 for holiday revenue as Call of Duty and Battlefield slipped

Newzoo says live service games did most of the heavy lifting for game revenue over the Christmas stretch, with Arc Raiders holding onto the No. 3 spot on its revenue charts for December 2025. In the same report, Newzoo market analysis manager Tianyi Gu said Call of Duty dropped to No. 5 and Battlefield landed at No. 8, arguing both “struggled to stand out” during the period.

The snapshot comes from Newzoo’s tracking across the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. That broader view doesn’t line up perfectly with US-only numbers from Circana, which recently reported Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 topped the US charts for combined physical and digital sales over the holidays.

On the Battlefield side, Circana has also said Battlefield 6 was 2025’s top-selling game in the US by dollar sales and had a huge launch, including more than seven million units sold in three days. Gu’s take is that the game didn’t keep that early momentum once Newzoo’s multi-country data is factored in.

Newzoo also pointed to a couple of movers outside the usual live service staples. Pokémon Legends: Z-A climbed ten spots to No. 11 after its Mega Dimensions DLC, while Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rose ten places to No. 16, helped by The Game Awards attention and a post-launch “thank you” update.

Separately, Gu noted Amazon’s Fallout TV series (Season 2 premiered December 16) lifted monthly active users for the franchise by 42% month-over-month, though that was well below the spike seen with Season 1. Gu added that Fallout revenue was up 59% month-on-month, largely tied to a Fallout 76 DLC release.