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King logo.svg: Infobox image for Minecraft company 'King'
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    "title": "King",
    "rows": [
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            "field": "Subsidiary",
            "label": "Type"
        },
        {
            "field": "\n*Riccardo Zacconi\n*Toby Rowland\n*Mel Morris\n*Thomas Hartwig\n*Sebastian Knutsson\n*Lars Markgren\n*Patrik Stymne",
            "label": "Founder(s)"
        },
        {
            "field": "August 2003",
            "label": "Founded"
        },
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            "field": "Stockholm, Sweden<br>London, England",
            "label": "Headquarters"
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            "field": "''(link to wikipedia:Candy Crush Saga article, displayed as Candy Crush Saga)''",
            "label": "Products"
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        {
            "field": "(link to wikipedia:Activision Blizzard article, displayed as Activision Blizzard)",
            "label": "Parent company"
        },
        {
            "field": "\n* [https://king.com/ Website]",
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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. Being a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, they are owned by Microsoft's gaming division who also own Mojang Studios via Xbox Game 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

  • Prior to creating Minecraft, Notch worked as a game developer at King from 2005 to 2009.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Minecraft Blast" (Archive) – Minecraft.net, November 13, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Minecraft Blast" – iplaygames7127 on YouTube, November 10, 2025
  3. ↑ "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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