Candy Crush Saga has become a poster child of the mobile gaming explosion that’s been occurring since 2009. Unlike other games that were simply fads, Candy Crush Saga has enjoyed a virtually limitless amount of recognition since launching early last year. Since then, the sport has migrated to almost each platform, except Amazon’s Kindle Fire. That changes today.

King announced today that Candy Crush Saga will devour the wallets of Kindle Fire players starting today in select territories. The match-3 puzzler will then be available all over on October 17, including the Kindle Fire HDX.

“We’ve had such positive feedback from players regarding King’s first Kindle Fire title, Bubble Witch Saga, that we now feel the time is true to bring Candy Crush Saga to Kindle Fire fans,” said Tommy Palm, Games Guru at King. “The Kindle Fire is a good device with which to benefit from the Candy Crush Saga gameplay and, with levels regularly added by the King team, we are hoping to maintain Kindle Fire owners entertained each day.”

Candy Crush Saga will remain unchanged in its move to Kindle Fire, however the press release doesn’t mention if the Kindle Fire version will support Amazon’s digital currency – Amazon Coins. We’ve reached out to Amazon to determine and could update this story once we know more. UPDATE: It is going to support Amazon Coins at launch.

“We are thrilled that King is bringing their highly regarded title Candy Crush Saga to the Amazon Appstore and around the entire line up of Kindle Fire tablets, including the hot Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX,” said Aaron Rubenson, Director of Amazon Appstore. “All Kindle Fire tablet owners can now explore the sweet and vibrant world of Candy Crush, giving customers much more easy methods to engage with considered one of their favorite games.”

While Candy Crush Saga might be launching in select territories today, it doesn’t look like live to tell the tale the U.S. Amazon Appstore yet. That probably means U.S. Kindle Fire owners should wait until October 17 to get their candy crushing on.

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