Poc In Mobile
Candy Crush producer Desirée Brathwaite on the underlying bias against black and brown people
"To attract and retain talent of colour, you need to provide an inclusive environment"
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King
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www.king.com
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King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles, offering games that are enjoyed all around the world.
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VP of Marketing
Frances Light
Global Director, Diversity and Inclusion
Ben Hollis
Lead Game Designer
Therese Sander
lead level designer on Candy Crush Saga
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Chief People Office
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President
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Brian Burford
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Accolades
Articles featuring King
I Want Candy
Candy Crush Friends Saga smashes through $200 million in lifetime revenue
The Candy Crush franchise has generated over $1 billion this year
Pgc Helsinki Digital
PGC Helsinki Digital: Designing compelling narratives for a mobile audience
"We should make sure that we invest the same amount of time into our characters as we are expecting from our players"
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: King's Abigail Rindo brings her passion for storytelling to PGC Helsinki Digital
Pocket Gamer Connects: Helsinki Digital will take place on September 14th - 18th
Farewell
King co-founder and chairman Riccardo Zacconi has left the company
"It's been an incredible ride, one that I would never have dreamt of when we started"
Financials
Activision Blizzard experiences a record breaking second quarter as it hits $1.9 billion in revenue
King boasted 271 million monthly active users in Q2
Crash Grab?
Opinion: Crash Bandicoot: On the Run needs to not only look good, but feel good
Can King transition the loveable marsupial over to mobile right?
Crash!
Update: King officially unveils Crash Bandicoot: On The Run
Pre-registrations open now on Google Play
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: King's Zoe Williams discusses the differences between live ops
Reoccuring versus Unique versus Uppercase
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: King senior level designer David Briggs on maintaining Candy Crush Jelly Saga in the middle of a pandemic
Discussing the benefits and negatives of running a live ops game from home
Open Source Defold
King is making its Defold game engine open source
Establishing the Defold Foundation to help it grow
Mel-lionare
Former King chairman Mel Morris tops the 2020 UK gaming rich list
Worth over $1 billion combined
Free Webinar
Free online PG.biz RoundTable discussion series launches tomorrow
Register for a Work From Home panel featuring experts from King, Tilting Point, Voodoo, Tamatem and more
Gardenscapes Growth
Playrix's Gardenscapes dethroned Candy Crush Saga for monthly global consumer spend in April 2020
App Annie confirms this is the first time Candy Crush Saga has been toppled by another match-3 game since 2012
Excited Yet?
Sega Europe, Tencent, King, Nordeus and NCSOFT all join the talented lineup for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Revealed: Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2 adds more top industry speakers to the already incredible line-up of talent
Stay Indoors
Developers are inserting "stay at home" messages in their games
Titles include Candy Crush Saga
Sweet
King offers UK Candy Crush players unlimited lives to distract from coronavirus
Offer lasts until 11pm GMT on March 29th
Talent Mag-net
King senior developer Egill Antonsson joins MAG Interactive
One of a number of hires from the company as of late
Become A Rage Knight
King RPG Knighthood releases worldwide after 19 months in soft launch
Developed by Leamington Spa-based studio Midoki
Diversity Is King
There is no such thing as a typical gamer, and our industry needs to reflect this
King's global director of diversity and inclusion Frances Light on why the company is aiming to hire a 50/50 gender balance in 2020
Making Money
PUBG Mobile generated $176.3 million in revenue in January 2020
The top grossing game of the month
Umph And Wump
Update: King taps Crash Bandicoot license for new endless runner
12-year absence from the platform
King Of The Hill
King accounted for 34% of Activision Blizzard's FY19 revenues
$2.3 billion in sales
Kings And Doctors
King hires Havok co-founder Dr Steve Collins as new CTO
Over 35 years experience in the industry
Here's The Facts
Coin Master was the top-earning mobile title in Europe in 2019
Overall mobile games brought in $7.4 billion
Pgc London Insights
Discover Game Maker Insights at Pocket Gamer Connects London
It is one of 15 tracks to feature at the event
Testing Testing
Activision Blizzard unveils "King's Council" group to test mobile ads
Specialist players sought out depending on their playtime and engagement factor
Sweet Success
Candy Crush Soda Saga surpasses $2 billion in lifetime revenue
410 million downloads in over five years
Jobs In Games
Kiki Olofsson on building diversity and great art at Candy Crush Saga dev King
Dealing with the sweet and the sour
Financials
Activision Blizzard and King revenue drops as Candy Crush stays top-grossing franchise in US
Free-to-play title had a monthly active user base of 247 million over the previous quarter.
Charts
Tencent tops September mobile publisher grossing chart
Fellow Chinese firm NetEase was second place
Best Of 2019
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019
Revealed: The movers, shakers and moneymakers!
Global Charts
Weekly global mobile games chart: Tencent titles take up half the chart in China
Mr Bullet remains the top free game in the US and UK
Narrative Design
Devcom 2019: Why mobile game narrative design is more than text and plot
King Berlin studio narrative designer Valentina Tamer offers her advice
Top Publishers
Tencent was the top grossing global apps publisher in July
Tencent grossed $679 million in revenue
Under Investigation
Report claims Activision Blizzard has avoided taxes on billions
The Candy Crush publisher moved $5.59 billion to subsidiaries in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013 to 2017
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King
"Suddenly I’d gone from policing the streets of Kent to policing the mean streets of Stormwind as a game master for Blizzard"
Dead Or Alive
Candy Crush co-founder thought title would be “dead” within six months
Casual puzzle series has brought in over $4 billion in revenue
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Candy Crush Saga shoots down PUBG Mobile’s chances of topping gross ranking in the US
Rankings from June 10th to June 16th
Job News
King CEO Riccardo Zacconi steps down after 16 years
Will move to chairman role from July 1st, 2019
Sales Decline
King revenue falls year-on-year to $529m despite growth in MAUs
PC declines and Candy Crush Friends Saga impacts profitability
Data
UK games industry gender pay gap widens
Median hourly wage for women drops 4.78 per cent, mean figure down four per cent
Sweet Victory
Candy Crush Friends Saga passes $50 million in revenue globally
Slower pace than predecessor Candy Crush Jelly Saga
Too Little, Too Late?
Why Activision Blizzard’s mobile strategy is between a rock and a hard place
The wrong IP at the wrong time
Europe A Priority
Activision Blizzard shuts down King’s San Francisco studio as it focuses on European development
Mobile developer pulls out of US altogether
Hail To The King
Candy Crush maker King's revenue up in 2018 to $2bn, touts $100m ads business
"The next phase about where the ad business heading is about continued scaling"
Studio Closure
Report: King's Seattle studio to close
Decision results in 78 job losses
Oh No
Swedish tax agency demands $370 million from Candy Crush Saga maker King
Skatteverket claims King owes substantial taxes after its acquisition by Activision in 2016
Big Initiative
King becomes first UK games company to sign Tech Talent Charter to push diversity in the UK
Publisher claims women only count for 19 per cent of people working in UK games industry
Game On
Candy Crush Saga was the top grossing mobile game on the US app stores in November
Supercell’s Clash of Clans and Roblox also featured