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Lavers Mallet joined the games industry after graduating business school at MIT Sloan. With previous work in enterprise software for the financial industry and strategy consulting, she had always had a side interest in theater production and working with creative teams generally. Driven by this interest, Lavers Mallet then joined …

Spending on Candy Crush Saga is in decline. The Guardian reports that quarterly spending on the smartphone hit was in decline throughout 2014, although the game’s in-app purchases still generated $1.33bn and has almost certainly passed lifetime revenues of $3bn. However, having peaked in Q3 2013 at $551m, the game’s …

One of the key people in Candy Crush Saga’s move from web to smartphone has left King. Venturebeat reports that Tommy Palm has quit the firm to forma a new startup called Resolution Games which will, among other things, work on virtual reality entertainment. The new venture is based in …

King’s reign is only just beginning. In the last 11 years since the casual games firm was founded, its properties have reeled in billions of dollars in revenue.Most notable among its catalogue is the free-to-play browser, tablet and smartphone match-three ‘Bejeweled with sweets’ behemoth Candy Crush Saga, which generated more …

Candy Crush publisher King has acquired a new studio in Singapore and is looking for UK staff to add to the roster. The outfit is called Nonstop Games and is on the hunt for developers for mobile and tablet platforms, including engineers, designers, artists and an office manager. Nonstop have …

Singapore-based studio seeking artists, game designers, Unity devs and more

Gerhard Florin steps up to vacant role

Casual behemoth Candy Crush Saga has a sequel. King has released Candy Crush Soda Saga on Facebook, saying that it is designed to be played alongside the original game” (which is still being regularly updated). It’s essentially similar to its predecessor, although some new modes are offered up to help …

Candy Crush Saga creator King runs more television advertisements than any other video game company out there, according to advertising metrics company iSpot.tv. Games Beat reports on the ad firm’s findings, which state King commercials have aired on US national television more than 34,000 times this year. Microsoft ran just …

A boxed Collector’s Edition of indie hit The Banner Saga will be coming to UK retail on July 25th. Sold Out Sales and Marketing Limited will offer the Viking-themed tactical role-playing game as a physical release for the first time. A spin-off of the retail sales team at Mastertronic, Sold …