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Candy Crush is still a beast, helping King hit a quarterly revenue record

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 3, 2018
1 min

The gaming community may be abuzz about Epic’s Fortnite on mobile, but King’s Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush Soda Saga continue to satisfy players’...

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Sensor Tower: Mobile game spending hit $48.3 billion in 2017

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 6, 2018
2 min

Mobile spending was up across the board globally in 2017 mostly due to games. Total app spend was up 35 percent year-over-year, reaching $58.6...

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Candy Crush Saga: 2.73 billion downloads in five years and still counting

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 17, 2017
9 min

Candy Crush Saga is the most popular mobile game in the U.S. after a dramatic comeback in the third quarter. As the mobile game...

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Activision Blizzard’s Q3 results beat expectations (update)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 2, 2017
2 min

Activision Blizzard reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, and the company touted the performances of its Destiny 2 launch and its King...

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You’re not Supercell: Why you should let your mobile games live

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 1, 2017
5 min

Best practices in mobile game development usually means developing and soft launching a multitude of games. Then if those games don’t hit certain minimum...

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5 min

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Nintendo answers the call to Arms on TV

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 27, 2017
2 min

Nintendo’s Switch remains a hard-to-find gaming system. Its Super NES Classic retro console sold out in seconds on some retail sites. And the House...