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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, and incorporated as King.com Limited in St. Julian's, Malta, King rose to prominence after releasing the cross-platform title Candy Crush Saga in 2012.
King, which is behind the hugely successful Candy Crush franchise, generated more revenue ($1.49 billion) than Activision ($1.15 billion) in the first half of this year.
Riccardo Zacconi. Riccardo Zacconi is an Italian businessman, management consultant, and video game developer. He is best known as CEO of King, a video game development company he founded in 2003. [1] King is the developer of the popular mobile game app Candy Crush Saga. [2] On May 26, 2019, Zacconi announced he was stepping down as CEO of King.
December 11, 2014. Windows Phone. September 6, 2012. Windows. July 29, 2015. Genre (s) Puzzle. Candy Crush Saga is a free-to-play tile-matching video game released by King on April 12, 2012, originally for Facebook; other versions for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 10 followed. It is a variation of their browser game Candy Crush.
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 ...
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
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 ...
Bloomberg/Andrew Harrer There has never been a hotter mobile game than "Candy Crush Saga," and the company behind the addictive blockbuster game believes it could raise nearly $613 million in an ...