Candy Crush Saga launched in November 2012, which makes it a whole decade old. I know, I can barely believe it either. And to celebrate that landmark it's adding some cool new features to keep people on playing. Like a self-celebratory birthday party, except everyone is invited.
While many may assume this guilty pleasure mobile game had already passed its heyday, Candy Crush Saga is still ongoingly popular, having accrued more than three billion downloads over those years. Three billion!
In an almost Bond movie-like fashion, Candy Crush Saga's makers, King, went to Abbey Road Studios, London, and recorded new audio tracks with a live orchestra for the game update. Yup, those in-game sounds aren't fakies. In addition, the 10-year-old Candy Crush Saga adds 12 (yes, twelve, not ten!) entirely new audio tracks to keep things fresh.
King has also given the game a revamped user interface based on user feedback, plus new animated backgrounds for added variety. Not that the gameplay's striking simplicity has changed: this is still your favourite match-three kind of puzzler available right on your phone.
It's enough to make me want to dust off the old download and dig back in on my Android device. But there's no time as Black Friday Deals are upon us, and I'm more likely to be buying a new TV. But for a bit of casual downtime, it sounds like Candy Crush has still got the goods.
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Mike is T3's Tech Editor. He's been writing about consumer technology for 15 years and his beat covers phones – of which he's seen hundreds of handsets over the years – laptops, gaming, TV & audio, and more. There's little consumer tech he's not had a hand at trying, and with extensive commissioning and editing experience, he knows the industry inside out. As the former Reviews Editor at Pocket-lint for 10 years where he furthered his knowledge and expertise, whilst writing about literally thousands of products, he's also provided work for publications such as Wired, The Guardian, Metro, and more.
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