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  • February 21st, 2013

    With 9B Games Played Each Month, King.com Grabs No.1 Slot On Facebook With Candy Crush Saga And Moves Into Japan And Korea

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    King.com, the casual social games maker, today is announcing a couple of milestones in its growth: the company’s Candy Crush Saga is now the number-one overall app on Facebook, on the back of 9 billion monthly gameplays across all of King.com’s titles — news that it has released at the same time that it has announced that Candy Crush Saga and another hit game, Bubble Witch Saga, would be going… → Read More

    October 30th, 2012

    Social Game Developer King.com Makes A Big Push Onto Mobile With Candy Crush Saga Launch

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    Mirroring a shift in the rest of the social gaming industry over the past few years, European developer King.com is making a big push onto mobile platforms with the release of its most popular Facebook game Candy Crush Saga on iOS next month.

    The new mobile game has a very deep integration with Facebook, featuring cross-platform play where you can take your achievements and virtual currency… → Read More

    May 21st, 2012

    Major Steal: King.com Poaches Talent Behind EA’s Sims Social To Lead New London Studio

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    King.com, the European-casual-gaming-company-that-could, is cementing its ascendance on the Facebook platform by poaching one of the key producers responsible for EA’s Sims Social and opening a new game development studio in London. The company just hired Catharina Mallet away from EA to lead the new studio, which should have 40 people by year-end.

    King.com, which started in Sweden and hasn’t→ Read More

    March 12th, 2012

    King.com Buys Fabrication Games As It Pushes Onto Mobile, Eyes Possible 2013 IPO

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    Swedish gaming company King.com just acquired Stockholm-based developer Fabrication Games in a big push to expand onto Android and iOS this year.

    With the deal, King.com picks up Fabrication’s talent, games and developer tools. Terms weren’t disclosed, but I would assume the acquisition is priced in the talent-range. Fabrication had titles that cropped up on certain game category rankings like… → Read More

    July 19th, 2007

    King.com and RealNetworks Announce Exclusive Partnership

    Games provider King.com and RealNetworks will today announce that both companies have entered into an exclusive, multi-year partnership that will integrate gaming content across both companies gaming portals. Under the deal, King.com will be the exclusive provider of skill-based games for Real at RealArcade.com, GameHouse.com and Zylom.com. In return, Real will also be the exclusive provider of… → Read More