With the acquisition of King Digital Entertainment for a cool $5.9 billion USD, Activision Blizzard's total user count now sits at over half a billion. How so many? Well, King Digital is the company behind the candy-related phenomenon Candy Crush. And with Activision now sporting a half-billion user count (across all platforms and titles), this illustrates just how successful and huge Candy Crush has been. To help drive the point home a little further, Disney bought Lucasfilm and Star Wars for roughly $4 billion USD, and Microsoft payed considerably less for Mojang and Minecraft (around $2.5 billion USD).

Okay so that last point will probably make your high-end gaming PC feel a little antiquated and not 'with it', but no need to be afraid of a future filled only with sugary mobile match-games. In addition to this announcement Activision Blizzard also posted its latest financial results and it looks like like over 7 million players signed-up for the Overwatch closed beta which kicked off on October 27. Plus, a lot of people still play Call of Duty.



But as for me, I'd to welcome our new candy overlords. And I'd like to remind them that as a trusted internet personality I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.