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Activision Blizzard has decided to acquire a mobile game publisher and it just so happens to be the company behind the strangely popular match-3 puzzle game Candy Crush. So how much did the company fork out to buy King? Well according to the details...

Activision Blizzard has announced that they are acquiring King Digital Entertainment, makers of the popular Candy Crush series of games for a whopping $5.9 billion – that’s $1.9 billion more than Disney paid out for Marvel. The purpose of Activision...

Shutterstock Activision Blizzard, home to World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Call of Duty, will pay $5.9 billion for King, the company known largely for one franchise: Candy Crush Saga. Such is the power of casual games. Activision Blizzard and King...

So, this happened. The company behind Call of Duty, Quake, and StarCraft, Activision Blizzard, is acquiring the developer of Candy Crush Saga, King Digital Entertainment. And they’re doing so for $5.9 billion. You read that correctly. This isn’t a surprising...

KING AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CREATE SWEET MUSIC FOR THE LAUNCH OF CANDY CRUSH SODA SAGA Sixty-Five LSO Musicians Record Soundtrack at Legendary Abbey Road Studios King Digital Entertainment plc (NYSE: KING), a leading interactive entertainment...