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King sues 6waves for allegedly copying two social games (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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King, the highly successful maker of casual mobile and social games, is suing rival 6waves for allegedly copying significant portions of two hit King games.

The litigation is rare for King, which has 225 million people playing games such as Candy Crush Saga. But the company has become a natural target for copycats now that it has become the top social game publisher on Facebook and a leader in mobile games with its Saga games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.