The Candy Crush Guys Are Secretly Building A New Puzzle Game Startup

Iain Martin is a senior editor who covers tech, startups and venture capital out of London, England. Iain edits the Midas List Europe, Midas Seed and Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Technology.

After selling Candy Crush developer King for $5.9 Billion to Activision, one of its cofounders Sebastian Knutsson has a new gaming startup.The cofounder of King , the startup behind the blockbuster mobile game Candy Crush that sold to Activision Blizzard in 2016 for $5.9 billion, has formed a new stealth gaming startup.

The team are working on new casual gaming apps with early plans focused on a ‘match 3’-style puzzle game, where players line up matching sets of icons to form a scoring line, sources close to QDE told. Similar games like Candy Crush or Royal Match , have dominated the charts of most downloaded apps for over a decade.

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