"Candy Crush Saga" is running in the future under the banner of Activision Blizzard. The gaming giant swallows the "Candy Crush" developer King for fabled 5.9 billion dollars - one of the largest acquisitions in recent years in the gaming sector.
The game giant Activision Blizzard invested his money recently in sweets. For as much as 5.9 billion US dollars (about 5.4 billion euros), the development studio King taken by its own account, which is known mainly for the smartphone and browser game "Candy Crush Saga" the company. Thus it is in the gaming sector to one of the largest takeovers in recent years.
King: expert for mobile and browser games
In addition to "Candy Crush Saga" King has a few other free-to-play-heavyweights in the portfolio. These include "Bubble Witch Saga", "Farm Heroes Saga" and "Scrubby Dubby Saga". Almost all Games Developer are available for Android, iOS, Facebook, and in some cases also for the Amazon App Store and even Windows 10th With a total of 5.9 billion US dollars of the purchase of King is significantly more expensive than the 2014 was carried over of the "Minecraft" -Entwicklers Majong by Microsoft. Also buying through Amazon Twitch was 970 million dollars compared to the King takeover a real bargain.
Activision takes casual gamers targeted
Activision Blizzard will strengthen with the deal definitely its portfolio in the field of casual gaming. In the classic PC and console sector of publishers already counts with titles like "Call of Duty", "Destiny", "World of Warcraft" and "Skylanders" the world's largest game publishers.
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