Neowin News Feed for: King

Microsoft cancels at least three Xbox games, guts Forza studio, and shuts down another

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:26:01 +0000

The massive wave of layoffs Microsoft just announced is affecting multiple teams and projects at Xbox, with a studio even being completely shut down. Read more...

Microsoft says that it will bring Call of Duty franchise to Nintendo Switch

Justin Luna — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 07:28:01 +0000

If its acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes through, Microsoft vows to bring the popular Call of Duty series to Nintendo consoles and make it available on the platform for at least 10 years. Read more...

Call of Duty publisher buys Candy Crush Saga developer for a whopping $5.9 billion

Usama Jawad — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:36:01 +0000

Activision Blizzard, the publisher behind popular gaming franchises such as Call of Duty and Diablo has announced the acquisition of King, the developer of Candy Crush Saga for $5.9 billion. Read more...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledges to cut back on Candy Crush notifications

Justin Luna — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:42:01 +0000

During a recent Q&A held in a university in India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the frustration of constantly getting Candy Crush invites, and pledges to reduce them in the future. Read more...

Candy Crush Soda Saga makes its way on to Windows 10

Justin Luna — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 06:02:01 +0000

After almost a year since release on iOS and Android, Candy Crush Soda Saga is finally on the Windows Store, as a universal app, making the game both designed for PC and mobile. Read more...

Candy Crush Saga creator plans stock market debut

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 02:56:52 +0000

King Digital, the company behind the popular online game 'Candy Crush Saga', soon plans to debut in the U.S stock market with an IPO which some analysts say could value the company at $5 billion. Read more...

Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711m

Matthew Hopson — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:11 +0000

Facebook has been awarded damages of $711 million against Sanford Wallace, who spammed the social network with fake messages. Wallace was sued in February, alongside Adam Arzoomanian, for obtaining login details for accounts and using... Read more...

Wrath of the Lich King tops PC game sales in February

Joshua Seed — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:34:59 +0000

The NPD Group, the top game-industry research firm released its list of the top 20 PC game titles for the month of February this past week. The month's most popular title was World of Warcraft:... Read more...

Intel Core 2 Duo E7200: The new budget king

Julio Franco — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:25:24 +0000

The new Core 2 Duo E7200 is the first member of the "Wolfdale-3M" family. You may remember that not so long ago we looked at the new Wolfdale family of 45nm processors, which consists of... Read more...

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Unveiled

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:18:55 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. has announced plans for the second expansion to World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled at the company's BlizzCon™ gaming festival before an audience of more than... Read more...

Thailand to sue YouTube over king clips

Mon, 07 May 2007 20:25:01 +0000

Thailand's army-backed government is considering suing Internet video-sharing site YouTube over clips it deemed insulting to King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thailand is upset about videos insulting the monarchy, a serious crime in the country that carries... Read more...

Thailand blocks YouTube for clip mocking king

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:04:08 +0000

Thailand's military-appointed government has blocked access to on-line video-sharing Web site YouTube after owner Google Incorporated declined to withdraw a video clip mocking the country's revered monarch. Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom ordered a block of... Read more...

Burger King Games Sell 2 Million in US

Joe Cashman — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:25:19 +0000

It seems like 'The King' has been doing very well for himself this past month. Developer Blitz Games is celebrating after selling 2 million Burger King games in just four weeks. Sales that are challenging... Read more...

DDR2 Finally Crowned DRAM King

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:47:34 +0000

After a much longer than expected delay, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) has finally taken over as the most popular memory chip used in PCs. The crossover to DDR2 from the previous mainstream chip,... Read more...

King Kong Gold

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:00:00 +0000

King Kong has gone gold for current-gen consoles and PC, and will hit retail shelves November 22nd. An Xbox 360 version is also expected to be ready for the console's launch. The game... Read more...

King of Fighters Returns to 3D Arena

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:00:00 +0000

PS2 Maximum Impact 2 anchors company's Tokyo Game Show offerings, KoF animated project also in works. SNK Playmore has revealed its plans for next month's Tokyo Game Show, and they include the... Read more...

U.S. Still Spam King

Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:00:05 +0000

The U.S. has maintained its dubious distinction of being the world's top producer of spam, leading the "Dirty Dozen" list compiled by security Latest News about Security authority Sophos by a wide margin. After scanning... Read more...

Ubisoft rekonfirms King Kong

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:47:47 +0000

Six months after its existence was accidentally revealed, the game is officially announced and will be released Q4 2005. In an April issue of The New York Times, there was an article... Read more...

King Of Fighters Maximum Impact Coming Stateside

Marcel Klum — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:48:11 +0000

SNK's King of Fighters Maximum Impact is coming to North America, if a new teaser page from SNK Neo Geo USA is any indication. Now online at www.kofmi.com, the page features the familiar logo from... Read more...

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King demo

Marcel Klum — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:39:24 +0000

The latest edition of North American PC Gamer features a demo of Electronic Arts' upcoming action-adventure title Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. In the demo you play as Gandalf, fighting off an... Read more...

LOTR - Return of the King Trailer Leaks on the net

Sun, 03 Aug 2003 14:04:44 +0000

Finally the Trailer of much awaited movie Lord of The Rings - Return of the King leaks on the net...it's around 30 MB it's in Quick Time format and the duration is 1.37 Mins.. ... Read more...

The Return of The King This Fall

Marcel Klum — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:40:50 +0000

EA brings its game adaption of New Line Cinema's upcoming film home in 2003. Electronic Arts officially revealed that the work is well underway on The Lord of the Rings: The Return... Read more...

ATI Radeon 9700 - Crowning the new King

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:07:17 +0000

Oh..my..god. That's all I can say folks. Enjoy.. The frustration has been building at ATI for years now; every GPU they've released and every inch of progress they've made has been spoiled... Read more...

HP aims to be king of changing market

Tue, 07 May 2002 18:59:56 +0000

The new Hewlett-Packard says it will become the world's premier technology provider, but admits that the market is shrinking. In back-to-back speeches at HP's Cupertino, Calif., offices Tuesday, CEO Carly Fiorina and... Read more...

Switch to €uro? No way. U$ dollar king in IT

Steven Parker — Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:20:07 +0000

Twelve countries in the European Union switch from their own currencies to the Euro (€) tomorrow but the US dollar ($) still rules in the IT business. A vast amount of excitement is being generated... Read more...