This court filing came to light in a lawsuit against Google by Epic Games, whose most successful game is Activision Blizzard King’s Candy Crush Saga, a casual game that is popular with many players around the world.

Epic Games is arguing that Google’s Play Store app store is anti-competitive by paying a large fee to prevent ABK from creating a competitive app store.

The post Epic Accuses Google of Paying Candy Crush Developer ABK $360 Million to Not Create Competing Stores appeared first on TechGoing.

King was originally a web game developer, but after the great success of “Candy Crush”, he turned to mobile game development. In 2016, King was acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion. Candy Crush Saga is King’s most popular game, and since its release in 2012, Candy Crush Saga has expanded into a franchise that includes upgrades and sequels such as Candy Crush Soda Saga and Candy Crush Friends Saga.

To celebrate Candy Crush’s 10th anniversary, King is adding new features to the game. It includes 12 new tracks, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, the Beatles’ most famous recording studio. Apart from this, the developer did not disclose other details.

Candy Crush Saga has now been downloaded over 3 billion times, making it the most downloaded casual game of all time, and is vying for the title of the most downloaded mobile game of all time. As of August 2022, Candy Crush Saga is the most downloaded The fourth largest mobile game.

While billions of downloads have accumulated over a long period of time, the Candy Crush Saga community is still very much alive. According to King, there are hundreds of millions of players around the world playing Candy Crush Saga. The game has 200 million monthly active users, has players on every continent, and continues to be one of the highest-grossing games.

The post The 10th anniversary of the mobile game Candy Crush Saga has exceeded 3 billion downloads appeared first on TechGoing.