Key Highlights
- Candy Crush Saga launched a four-week in-game event tied to Xbox’s 25th anniversary.
- Players can collect eight game-themed pins and compete in an arcade-style leagues event.
- Six Xbox game themes were re-recorded for the event and released on streaming platforms.
Candy Crush Saga launched a limited-time in-game event called Game On Season that ties the mobile game to Microsoft’s Xbox 25th anniversary, according to a press release distributed by PR Newswire.
The event is scheduled to run through December 6, and introduces Xbox-inspired content into Candy Crush Saga, including a new pin-collection feature and an arcade-themed leagues competition.
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According to the release, Game On Season brings eight game franchises into Candy Crush Saga: Halo, Fallout, Sea of Thieves, Forza, DOOM, Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. Players can earn and collect virtual pins based on characters and moments from those franchises as they progress through levels.
The company also said some of the virtual pins have been turned into physical pins, and that VIP players in the US can enter a contest via candycrush.com for a chance to win one of 1,000 limited-edition pin packs.
On the audio side, the release said six game themes (Halo, Fallout, Sea of Thieves, Forza, DOOM and Banjo-Kazooie) were reimagined for Candy Crush Saga and recorded with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, the Bulgarische Orthodoxe Chor Berlin e.V. (BoChorBerlin) choir and an accordion player. The tracks are also available on streaming platforms, including Spotify, according to the release.
“Game On Season lets players celebrate those memories inside the game they love playing every day,” Paula Ingvar, General Manager of Candy Crush, said in the release.
The release described King as the developer behind Candy Crush and said King is part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
The original press release is available on stockhouse.com
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