Activision Blizzard Inc. tapped King, its unit behind the hit game “Candy Crush Saga,” to create a new “Call of Duty” mobile game, putting one of its most lucrative properties in the hands of the casual-gaming company it acquired last year for $5.9 billion. Call of Duty, a more-than-decade-old war-shooter series made by the Activision’s publishing unit, has ranked among the top-selling PC and console games in the U.S. for years,...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 07, 2017 17:37 UTC