Candy Crush saga, which requires players to group three same-color candies to remove them from the screen, has 15 million users a day on Facebook. King will hire another eight people in Bucharest and plans to double the team by yearend.
After making a name for itself as a destination for IT support and development centers staffed by thousands of Romanians mostly in its main university cities, Romania is now an important destination for major gaming companies.
Gameloft, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts (EA) are constantly posting job ads for their Romanian offices on job sites. The local gaming industry has become more and more competitive in recent years, with about 3,000 jobs created.
King also has offices in London, Hamburg, Stockholm, Malmo, Barcelona, Malta and San Francisco and about 500 employees worldwide.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)