Items tagged with Candy Crush
SurveyMonkey has just confirmed what many have already suspected -- Pokémon GO is the biggest mobile game in history. Pokémon GO has dethroned Candy Crush, the long-reigning king of mobile gaming which, at its peak, had twenty million active gamers. Pokémon GO currently has more than twenty-one million active users in the United States. Within twenty-four hours of its release, Pokémon GO beat out indie hit Slither.io and Supercell’s heavily promoted blockbuster Clash Royale. Yesterday we reported that iPhone users were spending more time on Pokémon GO than on social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat. During the next few days, Pokémon GO for Android could even surpass...
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If you haven’t been bombarded at some point with numerous Facebook notifications to join your friends for a round of Candy Crush, consider yourself lucky. You can’t shake a stick without hitting somehow hitting something related to Candy Crush (an iOS users know all too well about tricky banners that automatically transports you to App Store in an effort to get you to download the freemium game). Given the hysteria surrounding the Candy Crush franchise, developer King Digital must be doing something right. Activision Blizzard was definitely taking notice, and this week announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to purchase King Digital for a staggering $5.9 billion. At $18 per share,...
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Who knew a game in which you line up candy would catapult its developer into the big leagues? A tiny, London-based software known as King (and, also as Midasplayer International) is in the early stages of preparing for a U.S. IPO. The company has already hired banks in the U.S. to prepare for the public offering. Candy Crush for Android. Although Candy Crush Saga isn’t King’s only game, it’s probably the company’s most popular one. If you haven’t tried the Candy Crush Saga before, that’s easily remedied: the game is available for Android and iOS devices and Facebook and it’s free to play. (Of course, there are in-game purchases you can make.) If you’re...
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