King's Candy Crush Saga hits $20bn in lifetime revenue

It’s Halloween once more in Guild Wars 2 , with the return of the Shadow of the Mad King festival, starting today. Enjoy returning favorites and new stuff for 2023, including a new variant of the Mad King's Clock Tower, new achievements, and more.

Skull Island: Rise Of Kong - the first proper King Kong game since 2005 - comes out today, but unflattering gameplay clips that surfaced online have compared it to the year’s worst-reviewed game.

A new King Kong game has gone viral due to its unusually poor graphics, with one player labelling it “a complete scam”.

Feel like you could handle the beasts of the Upside Down better than the gang could? Why not put that to the test? Kingdom Eighties just dropped on Android. It’s a game about a small town under attack from strange monsters from another dimension whose worst enemy is a bunch of local kids on bikes.

Microsoft is making an Xbox mobile store with a potential launch for next year. Microsoft already owns massive IPs such as Candy Crush, Elder Scrolls Blades, and COD Mobile, so this comes as unsurprising news considering they already have the foundation for their own mobile platform.

In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft today finally completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard King after 21 months of prep work and grappling with regulatory bodies. The $69 billion deal sees several of gaming’s most lucrative franchises come under the Microsoft/Xbox umbrella, including Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Warcraft, etc. However, this begs the question: Now that the whole rigmarole of acquisition is done, what happens for Activision Blizzard now?

It’s been a long time coming, but after the FTC’s failed attempt to stop the acquisition it was just a matter of time, and after Microsoft agreed to license out it’s cloud divion, the British CMA have finally given the green light, mere hours later, Xbox closed the deal and Activision, Blizzard and King are now part of the Xbox family.

After several months of grappling with federal investigations, Microsoft has closed its deal to acquire Activision Blizzard King. The console manufacturer officially acquired the games company for $69 billion, gaining ownership of several lucrative franchises, including Call of Duty, Warcraft and Candy Crush. This follows the news earlier this morning that authorities had removed the final regulatory roadblock allowing the deal to happen.

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Microsoft has announced that it has — finally — completed its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the developer and publisher of Call of Duty, Warcraft, and Candy Crush.

As of around 9am Eastern time, the $68.7 billion sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft has officially closed, marking the end of a 21-month struggle with regulators and the largest tech acquisition in history! Alongside this news, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick released a message to employees, celebrating their hard work and the growth of the company he helmed for more than thirty years. Noting successes with the development and publication of iconic games like Pitfall, MechWarrior, Warcraft, StarCraft, Call of Duty, Candy Crush, and more, Kotick shared his commitment to remain with his company as CEO during a transition period through the end of 2023. While the wording suggests he will then depart the company for good, the future is left somewhat uncertain. For the time being, he will report to the head of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer, although Kotick had previously stated his desire to remain working with Microsoft in whatever capacity they would have him.

Microsoft has finally closed their deal to acquire and merge with Activision Blizzard King.