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{{Scope|{{w|King (company)|Wikipedia}}}}{{Infobox company
| title = King
| type = Subsidiary
| parent = {{w|Activsion Blizzard}}
| name = King.com Limited
| founded = August 2003
| website = https://king.com/
| founders =
*Riccardo Zacconi
*Toby Rowland
*Mel Morris
*Thomas Hartwig
*Sebastian Knutsson
*Lars Markgren
*Patrik Stymne
| headquarters = Stockholm, Sweden<br>London, England
| products = ''{{w|Candy Crush Saga}}''
| image = King logo.png
| industry = Video games
}}
'''King''' is a Swedish {{w|video game developer}}, with headquarters in {{w|Stockholm}} and {{w|London}} and are most notable for creating ''{{W|Candy Crush Saga}}''. Being a subsidiary of {{w|Activision Blizzard}}, they are owned by [[Minecraft:Xbox (divison)|Microsoft's gaming division]] who also own [[Minecraft:Mojang Studios]] via [[Minecraft:Xbox Game Studios]].

== In the ''Minecraft'' franchise ==
in 2025, Mojang Studios and King collaborated to create an upcoming mobile game titled ''[[Minecraft:Minecraft Blast]]'', which is currently in development by both companies.<ref name="MCB-minecraft.net">{{citation|url=https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/about-minecraft-blast|title=Minecraft Blast|section=|website=[[Minecraft:Minecraft.net]]|author=|date=November 13, 2025|quote=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251113165243/https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/about-minecraft-blast}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{YouTube link|Qi4KQ3CB6dg|archive=|Minecraft Blast|iplaygames7127|November 10, 2025|t=}}</ref>

== Trivia ==
* Prior to creating ''Minecraft'', [[Minecraft:Notch]] worked as a game developer at King from 2005 to 2009.<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/markus-notch-persson-talks-minecraft|title=Markus 'Notch' Persson Talks Minecraft|section=Before you started on Minecraft, you’d quit a fulltime job to work as an indie developer.|quote=I was working for king.com, making smaller Flash games.|website=www.rockpapershotgun.com}}</ref>

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