King
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This page only covers King's official connection to the Minecraft franchise.
For more general information about King, please refer to other websites, such as Wikipedia.
King
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August 2003 |
| Headquarters |
Stockholm, Sweden |
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King is a Swedish video game developer, with headquarters in Stockholm and London and are most notable for creating Candy Crush Saga. They are owned by Microsoft who is also the parent company of Mojang Studios.
In the Minecraft franchise
in 2025, Mojang Studios and King collaborated to create an upcoming mobile game titled Minecraft Blast, which is currently in development by both companies.[1] The game will combine modern match puzzle gameplay with scenarios that are Minecraft themed. The game could only be playtested in Malaysia and Canada on devices running iOS and iPadOS.[2]
Trivia
References
- ↑ "Minecraft Blast" (Archive) – Minecraft.net, November 13, 2025.
- ↑ "Minecraft Blast" – iplaygames7127 on YouTube, November 10, 2025
- ↑ "Markus 'Notch' Persson Talks Minecraft" (§ Before you started on Minecraft, you’d quit a fulltime job to work as an indie developer.) – www.rockpapershotgun.com. "I was working for king.com, making smaller Flash games."
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