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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.
Activision Blizzard, Inc. [a] is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. [3] Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: [4] Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, [5] Major League Gaming, [6] and Activision Blizzard 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 studio behind addictive matching puzzle game Candy Crush has begun the process of filing for its U.S. IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Re/Code reports.The UK company will look ...
CEO, King. 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.