Activision just spent more on Candy Crush than you ever will. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Activision Blizzard, the gaming company known for franchises like Call of Duty, Warcraft, and Guitar Hero, has acquired King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion.

The Candy Crush creator boasts one of the largest networks of players on mobile, with a staggering 474 million active users a month.

Facebook’s chief product officer has had enough of workers preferring the iPhone. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Facebook has a problem of iPhone love: too many of its employees prefer Apple’s device when given the chance between an iPhone and Android smartphone. This means that up until now, far less workers have been able to truly live in an Android environment where they can identify bugs within Facebook and fix them. Now, the chief product officer is changing that by ordering some employees to switch to Android.

Priv will almost certainly be BlackBerry’s best smartphone yet. Photo: BlackBerry

BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone will be offered by AT&T in the U.S. — and you’ll be able to purchase yours this week. Prices for Priv start at under $25 a month on an AT&T Next plan, giving you a more affordable alternative to BlackBerry’s steep $699 off-contract price.

Score a stellar deal on the 2014 Moto X. Photo: Motorola

If you’re looking to score a stellar deal on an awesome smartphone, and you don’t need one of the latest devices, then you have to take advantage of Amazon’s awesome Deal of the Day on Motorola’s second-generation Moto X — which is down to just $199.99 for today only.

Samsung wants you to take even greater images with Galaxy S7. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung is expected to adopt Sony’s impressive 25-megapixel camera sensor featured in the Xperia Z5 lineup for next-year’s Galaxy S7, according to a new report — and the South Korean company’s new flagship could appear as early as January 2016.