Activision Purchases ‘Candy Crush’ Developer for $5.9 Billion

King Digital is best known for its popular browser game “Candy Crush” and its mobile version “Candy Crush Saga.” The company, which went public in March 2014 at $22.50 a share, is being acquired by game giant Activision Blizzard, for $18 a share. While the game continues to generate profit for King, the developer has yet to launch another of the same magnitude. However, while “Candy Crush” generated $493 million during the last three months of 2013, it still earned $206 million in the last three months ending in June 2015. “The thing about creating a megahit game in the iPhone/Android era is that there’s no flywheel effect,” suggests Re/code. “A megahit gives you resources to market other games, which is nice. But no one has been able to prove that making one megahit lets you make other megahits.”

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