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King, also known as King Digital Entertainment, is a Swedish video game developer and publisher that specialises in social games.Headquartered in Stockholm and London, [1] and incorporated as King.com Limited in St. Julian's, Malta, [2] King rose to prominence after releasing the cross-platform title Candy Crush Saga in 2012.
With it, Microsoft gained ownership of several franchises under Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King, including Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Overwatch, and Candy Crush. As of 2023, the acquisition is the largest video game acquisition by transaction value in history.
King Publishing – Mobile games developer, publishing label and main development team of Candy Crush Saga series Activision Blizzard is divided into three key business segments: [ 86 ] [ 87 ] Activision Publishing , which handles the development, production, and distribution of video games from its subsidiary studios.
Activision acquires Candy Crush maker King Digital Entertainment for $5.9B in the largest accidental in-app purchase in history. — Sean Rose (@seanrose) November 3, 2015 More TechCrunch
The company has closed its $5.9 billion acquisition of King, making it the owner of Candy Crush Saga and giving it 310 million extra users. King will continue to operate independently, but make no ...
King catapulted to the top of the mobile and social games rankings years ago on the back of the wildly popular Candy Crush series of games. This helped the 10 year-old company overtake Zynga as ...
The move provided a glimpse of the state of the King Digital's financial health, and insight into know how wildly popular that "Candy Crush" has become. Let's go over a few things from King's SEC ...
The company behind the wildly popular mobile game Candy Crush, King Digital Entertainment, is going public. An updated F-1 filing indicates that it wants to raise up to $532.8 million at a ...