Candy Crush Saga: 2.73 billion downloads in five years and still counting
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...
Activision Blizzard adds a few hundred million users as it closes $5.9B King acquisition
Call of Duty and Candy Crush Saga are now married. Activision Blizzard today completed its $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital Network, the maker of...
GamesBeat Summit 2016’s initial speakers include King’s CEO, Google’s chief game designer
We’re pleased to introduce our first two speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4...
Activision Blizzard’s strategy for world conquest
Activision Blizzard has become the No. 2 publicly traded game company in the world, second only to China’s Tencent. It has done so by...
King beats Wall Street estimates for Q3 earnings, but revenues weaken
King, the Candy Crush Saga game publisher which has agreed to be acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion on Monday night, reported earnings for...
Why King’s disruptive CEO is happy with his new traditional-gaming overlord
Call of Duty, StarCraft, and now Candy Crush Saga. Activision Blizzard’s $5.9 billion purchase of King Digital Entertainment means that it will have a...
King chief Riccardo Zacconi dishes on his strategy for going beyond Candy Crush Saga
King talks up Paradise Bay, but it faces existing competition.
King is launching new games and expanding to new territories this year
King chief executive Riccardo Zacconi said the company has more games in development than ever before as it tries to come up with hits to match the success of its flagship mobile monster Candy Crush Saga — and taking the opposite tack as other competitors like Kabam scale down their focuses to their biggest games.
Why King looks better than Zynga in the casual game market
The two big players in the casual game market have switched positions in the last two years.
King delivers the candy for investors as it beat Q3 earnings expectations
Candy Crush Saga is now 51 percent of revenue, compared to 59 percent last quarter.