Candy crush is a match-3 game like bejeweled, while candyswipe is a "draw an unbroken path on similar things" game. The game play is a different mechanism. Though the graphical and stylistic similarities are there, I'd hardly call it a clone.

(not that I'm defending King in their douchebag tactics)

Exactly. The Candyswipe dev has been pretty successful at promoting his story. But in reality, the games (1) have nearly nothing in common, and (2) are both highlyu derivative of other, older games.

No it's not.

Lets recap the CandySwipe Saga[1]:

- The creator does exactly the same thing than most people accused King.com of doing: Ie. blocking someone's trademark application because they both have the same word in it (here "Candy").

- They both have a blue "circle" as an icon (I'm sorry, but the others one have nothing in common except they are all candies, somehow)

- The games have very little in common mechanically. CandySwipe is about selecting multiple adjacent candies while Candy Crush is about permuting multiple candies so you can make combos.

Because, yes, these games have really nothing in common, except they are about candies. If anything, the only one who could have something of a claim is Bejeweled's creator, Pop-Cap.

If anything, Albert Ransom (who got quite the name here), only got what he was asking for when King bought Candy Crusher and so had a legitimate response, since Candy Crusher is older than CandySwipe.

King.com is certainly not a saint, but Ransom is just freeriding here because he got a good story.

[1] I had to do this one :p