BARCELONA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 7, 2026--
King, the interactive entertainment company behind Candy Crush Saga ® , has achieved a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most people playing a mobile game simultaneously. A total of 1,146 employees came together to play Candy Crush Saga simultaneously and played the game continuously for five minutes.
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This record offers a playful way to celebrate a game that has continued to bring enjoyment to millions of players around the world for almost 15 years, as well as the people behind it. At King, everyone makes the games. From the teams creating new levels and experiences to those supporting players and bringing the game to life around the world, every Kingster plays a part in Candy Crush Saga’s story.
With close to 25,000 levels and 60 more added every week, Candy Crush Saga continues to evolve, giving players new ways to play and keeping the experience fresh for millions of people around the world.
“Mobile games put fun in people’s hands every day, all over the world. So with 1,146 Kingsters in one place, we thought: why just play Candy Crush Saga when we could break a world record doing it? It’s a very King way to celebrate the people and community who make the game what it is,” said Todd Green, President, King.
“A GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title is all about celebrating extraordinary achievements, and seeing 1,146 King employees playing Candy Crush Saga together certainly made for a memorable record attempt. The energy in the room was fantastic, and I’m delighted to officially recognise King as the holder of this Guinness World Records title,” said Richard Stenning, Adjudicator, Guinness World Records.
The record follows a milestone year for Candy Crush Saga, which has continued to find new ways to bring its playful world to audiences, from a star-studded Music Season to experiences at Intuit Dome. This record acts as another reminder of the enduring power of mobile games to bring accessible moments of play to millions of people around the world.
Candy Crush Saga® is free to download on iOS and Android. For more information, visit candycrushsaga.com.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Sag a. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.
About Candy Crush Saga
Candy Crush Saga® is one of the world's most popular mobile games. Millions of players around the globe match colorful candies in combinations of three or more to win points, defeat obstacles, and progress through more than 20,000 levels. In November 2022, Candy Crush Saga celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Candy Crush Saga is available to download for free from the Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store, Windows App Store and Facebook.
King Celebrates Candy Crush Saga® With Guinness World Records™ Title
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 21 civilians, including four children, and wounding around 60 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine had anticipated the attack, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warning the previous day that intelligence services had concluded that Russia was building up for a “massive” strike.
Although Ukraine knew about the looming attack, which coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 74th birthday, it couldn’t fend it off completely.
The deaths and damage illustrated the difficulty Ukraine has in countering Russia’s ballistic missiles and the new jet-powered drones used in Moscow’s escalating bombardments. Without ammunition for its U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, Ukraine can’t stop Russian ballistic weapons. It is racing to develop a new generation of interceptors fast enough to catch Moscow's high-flying jet-propelled drones.
Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a long-range aerial war as their armies remain largely deadlocked on the battlefield, more than 4 ½ years after Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. The unrelenting aerial attacks are hurting Russia but could be ruinous for smaller Ukraine.
U.S.-led peace efforts appear unlikely to bring any short-term relief, with the possibility of holding low-level technical talks still under discussion. Putin, meanwhile, is pressing ahead with the invasion in the belief that Ukrainians will buckle under the pressure and Kyiv’s Western supporters won’t stay the course, Western analysts say.
“Russia is pursuing a deliberate strategy of terror,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on X. “Trying to make daily life impossible for Ukrainians who want to live in peace.”
A Russian strike destroyed an apartment block in Pryluky, in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, killing 15 people, including four children, and wounding about 50, authorities said.
Deaths were also reported in three other Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, according to Zelenskyy.
“The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively,” the Ukrainian leader said on social media.
Ukraine is looking worldwide for available Patriot missiles, which are in short supply due to the Iran war.
“Russian ballistic missiles remain the greatest challenge. And air defense packages for us right now are a vital necessity,” Zelenskyy said.
In Kremenchuk, in the Poltava region, two people were killed and seven injured, said Vitalii Diakivnych, head of the regional military administration, and a rescue operation was continuing.
“That is exactly what the enemy is counting on. For us to be afraid to fall asleep. To let our children out of our sight. To plan anything. So that everyone thinks: next time it could be my address,” he said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the military carried out a massive strike overnight targeting industrial facilities involved in the production and storage of missiles and drones across Ukraine. The ministry said that port and ship repair facilities in the southern Odesa region and ships carrying cargo for the Ukrainian military were also hit.
Ukraine has hit back at Russia by launching long-range drones and missiles at oil refineries and storage depots.
Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukraine targeted two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara, and Astrakhan regions of Russia.
Russian officials made no immediate comment.
Zelenskyy also indicated that Ukraine had struck in the Black Sea. He posted images of a fire said to show an oil tanker burning in the water near the Russian city of Sochi.
It was not possible to independently verify the images.
Some Russian online media late Tuesday also posted the images. Unconfirmed media reports said it was carrying oil from Novorossiysk to India and was attacked by Ukrainian sea drones.
Follow the AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
Locals and rescuers carry out an injured woman from a residential building destroyed in a Russian missile strike on Pryluky, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Locals carry out a body from a residential building destroyed in a Russian missile strike on Pryluky, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Locals and rescuers carry out an injured man from a residential building destroyed in a Russian missile strike on Pryluky, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on the development of energy storage systems via videoconference, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work on the scene of a building destroyed following recent Russian attacks in Pryluky, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work on the scene of a building destroyed following recent Russian attacks in Pryluky, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP )
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the media after a German-Ukrainian business forum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
