King
King is a Swedish video game developer, with headquarters in Stockholm and London and are most notable for creating Candy Crush Saga. Being a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, they are owned by Microsoft's gaming division who also own Mojang Studios via Xbox Game Studios.
in 2025, Mojang Studios and King collaborated to create an upcoming mobile game titled Minecraft Blast, which is currently in development by both companies.[1] The game will combine modern match puzzle gameplay with scenarios that are Minecraft themed. The game could only be playtested in Malaysia and Canada on devices running iOS and iPadOS.[2]
| Type | Subsidiary |
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| Founded | August 2003 |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden London, England |
| Products | Candy Crush Saga |
| Parent company | Activsion Blizzard |
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King is a Swedish video game developer, with headquarters in Stockholm and London and are most notable for creating Candy Crush Saga. Being a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, they are owned by Microsoft's gaming division who also own Mojang Studios via Xbox Game Studios.
In the Minecraft franchise
in 2025, Mojang Studios and King collaborated to create an upcoming mobile game titled Minecraft Blast, which is currently in development by both companies.[1] The game will combine modern match puzzle gameplay with scenarios that are Minecraft themed. The game could only be playtested in Malaysia and Canada on devices running iOS and iPadOS.[2]
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References
- ↑ "Minecraft Blast" (Archive) – Minecraft.net, November 13, 2025.
- ↑ "Minecraft Blast" – iplaygames7127 on YouTube, November 10, 2025
- ↑ "Markus 'Notch' Persson Talks Minecraft" (§ Before you started on Minecraft, you’d quit a fulltime job to work as an indie developer.) – www.rockpapershotgun.com. "I was working for king.com, making smaller Flash games."
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