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Yep, that is right - Activision-Blizzard buys King Games, the Candy Crush people, for $5.9 billion!
The Candy Crush games have peaked, and King is like other companies who made huge amounts of money but is now unable to repeat with a new hit game.
Personally? Not a fan of the King games ... but will be interesting to see what this means from both sides ...
Activision Blizzard is to pay $5.9bn to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the London-based group behind the hugely popular Candy Crush Saga mobile games, in the gaming industry’s biggest deal since Microsoft bought Minecraft last year.
At a time when games such as Call of Duty for consoles including Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation make up the majority of its revenues, Activision is paying a huge sum for one of the largest communities of mobile gamers in the world.
The Candy Crush games have peaked, and King is like other companies who made huge amounts of money but is now unable to repeat with a new hit game.
Personally? Not a fan of the King games ... but will be interesting to see what this means from both sides ...
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