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King Touts Latest Gaming Numbers: 70 Million Daily Players, 21 Billion Games Played Per Month

On the back of its hit Facebook/mobile game Candy Crush Saga, casual game studio King said in a press release that it has crossed the 70 million mark in daily active players across all platforms. That puts it within striking distance of Zynga’s all-time quarterly peak of 72 million daily active users (achieved in Q2 2012), and well beyond that competitor’s latest quarterly total of 52 million DAU, as reported last month. The company also said that its cross-platform games are now being played more than 21 billion times per month.

iOS 7, Breaking the S4 and Teaching Kids to Code — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

A convenient roundup of the Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD this week.
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Cheap Mobile Games? Bah! Meet zSpace’s $4,000 3-D Monitor.

Cool technology, but the future of video games? Even zSpace says it’s focusing on other stuff first.
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Google Glass, Workday and “WTF, Firefox OS?” — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

A convenient roundup of the Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD this week.
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WhatsApp, Snapchat and the Real “Second Screen” — 10 Things You Missed at Day Two of Dive Into Mobile

A quick catch-up guide to the second and final day of our global mobile conference.
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Making Club Penguin Safe for Kids Is Never “Done,” Disney Says

Disney Interactive sees the game as “a safe start to social.”
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Facebook Touts Gaming Numbers at GDC, Lays Out New Plans

Facebook’s focus on its gamers in 2012 appears to have paid off.
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Day Two at D: Dive Into Media 2013, in Pictures and Tweets

Storified: The best tweets and pictures from the second day of D: Dive Into Media.
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Day One at D: Dive Into Media 2013, in Pictures and Tweets

Google, Government Reps Warn Against Internet Regulation Summit

Maybe You Should Start Paying Attention to Indie Games Developers

The Bodyguard: Paying for Internet Execs’ Security