Activision, the creator of Call of Duty, has acquired King.com, the maker of Candy Crush, for $5.9bn.
The deal will bring together the two video gaming companies and will allow Activision to strengthen its mobile gaming offer which is now expected to serve half a billion players a month following the combination according to Bobby Kotick, its chief executive.
The Dublin-based games maker will continue to be run by chief executive, Ricardo Zacconi as an independent unit of Activision, it has confirmed.
In discussing the sale, Zacconi explained: “this opens up opportunities we didn’t have before.”
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Source: The Drum
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