King Launches Jewellery Game ‘Diamond Diaries Saga’ Mobile Game
King your well-known creator of Candy Crush and Bubble Witch Saga have revealed their latest title Diamond Diaries Saga. The physics-based linking title sends players around the world in search for hidden jewellery collections. Lucy is the main protagonist and an expert jewellery crafter who has been tasked with discovering hidden…
Candy Crush Saga Gets The Emoji Movie Levels
The Emoji Movie which is coming on August 4th has made its way into King's Candy Crush Saga on mobile. The movie-inspired levels have been designed to represent the Candy Crush Saga's appearance in the film where the main character gets stuck on the game board and needs to be…
Interview at King Barcelona with Bubble Witch 3 Saga Developer Nacho Pintos
To celebrate the studio’s latest release, King games invited us out to their Barcelona studio for the launch of Bubble Witch 3 Saga. An impressive, four story office in the heart of the Spanish capital, King’s Barcelona studio have been responsible for Papa Pear Saga and the entire Bubble Witch…
Bubble Witch 3 Saga bursts onto app stores today
King, the creators of one of the world’s most popular mobile game franchises, Candy Crush, have just released Bubble Witch 3 Saga, the third instalment of the hit Bubble Witch Saga franchise. Developed by King’s Barcelona studio, the team that created the previous instalments in the Bubble Witch series along…
Shuffle Cats Heads to Facebook Chat Instant Games Program
King have teamed up with Facebook to offer their latest and first multiplayer game Shuffle Cats to Facebook users over their Messenger app. Known as Facebook's new Instant Games feature, King have created a smaller version of Shuffle Cats which can be instantly played on Messenger and the Facebook News…
Candy Crush is Getting a Game Show in the US
Candy Crush creators, King have teamed up with CBS to deliver the first ever Candy Crush game show which will launch in the US. With the recent success of over 2000 levels in Candy Crush and together with its sister title, Candy Crush Soda Saga in the top 10 grossing…
King Celebrate Their 2000th Candy Crush Saga Level
A huge milestone for King has just been hit with the creation of their 2000th level for popular match-3 title, Candy Crush Soda Saga which challenges players to match sweets in different combinations of three or more. The title has consistently ranked within the top 5 grossing game in the…
Defold Interview with Lead Developer, Ragnar Svensson
We sat down with Ragnar Svensson, the lead engine developer of Defold at King, to talk about their very own games engine that they recently released for gamers to be able to create their own video games using the same engine as Blossom Blast Saga. So with further delay, here is…
Farm Heroes Super Saga Preview
Last week VGU took a trip to London to visit the HQ of KING games. KING are most famous for their mobile and Facebook game Candy Crush, so we were excited to see what they had on the table for us. The most surprising thing to happen to us at…
Candy Crush Jelly Saga : An Interview With Andreas Olofsson From King
After releasing two of the most downloaded mobile games of all time, King have now released Candy Crush Jelly Saga, the third of their sweet matching puzzle games. To celebrate it's long awaited release, we spoke to the producer of the game, Andreas Olofsson, to tell us more about the newest…
Final Fantasy XV Dawn Trailer Revealed at Gamescom
Over the many years that the Final Fantasy series has been around, there have been many different worlds and characters that have been given the spotlight. The newest main entry in the series takes us to the kingdom of Lucis, where the crown prince Noctis is on a mission to…
King Abandons “Candy” Trademark Claim In The US
Candy Crush creator King have abandoned their copyright claim for the word "Candy" in the US after weeks of controversy According to documents filed with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office, King "filed an express abandonment" on the claim. This does not affect their claim to the word "Saga", not…
Scathing Open Letter Aimed At King Sent From CandySwipe Creator
Albert Ransom, creator of Candy Crush precursor CandySwipe, has written a caustic open letter to King. Pre-dating Candy Crush Saga by two years, the letter is both a heart-wrenching history of his time developing CandySwipe, as well as an equally passionate criticism of King's successful attempt at blotting his game out…
Banner Saga 2 Development Going Ahead Despite King Copyright Issue
Three man indie developers Stoic are going ahead with the development of The Banner Saga 2. This is despite ongoing issues with King, after they claimed copyright infringement over the word "saga" used in the games title. Announced on Facebook yesterday, Stoic stated: "after a short hiatus we'll be coming…
Candy Crush dev responds to copycat accusation
Candy Crush developer King.com has responded to the recent criticisms after trademarking ‘Candy’ and ‘Saga’ and an indie developer’s claim that they stole his game. CEO Riccard Zacconi has published an open letter on the King.com website defending the company’s position. “At its simplest, our policy is to protect our…
Indie Dev accuses Candy Crush Stuido of stealing their game
Matthew Cox from indie studio Stolen Goose has claimed the Candy Crush developer, King, of “blatantly” copying their game Scamperghost in 2009 after publishing negotiations fell through. "It's ironic that King.com is concerned about intellectual property when they so blatantly copied our game Scamperghost with their game 'Pac-Avoid' in late…
King Trying to Crush The Banner Saga
Yesterday came the news about King, developers of popular game Candy Crush Saga trademarking the word ‘Candy’ and issuing threats to any other developer using the word in their game titles. The trademark application was spotted by Gamasutra and it has been reported that Apple has already started serving notifications…
Candy Jam Invites Developers To Make Games With Candy In The Title
Days before the Global Game Jam 2014 event, the Candy Jam was announced today and invites team of programmers and artists to essentially troll King.com, the developers of the ludicrously successful Candy Crush Saga. King.com are trying to trademark the words Candy and Saga, and are trying to legally enforce…