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Casual Games Are Good for You

East Carolina University's Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies has recently announced the findings of a study aimed at measuring the impact playing casual games has on the individual. The results should be taken with a pinch of salt as the study itself was funded by the most successful of casual publish...

29 April 2008
03:54 GMT

PopCap Offers Honeymoon after Bejeweled Extravaganza

You probably remember the story we posted a while ago about Bernie Peng who created from scratch, for the Nintendo DS, a version of Bejeweled, his girlfriend's favorite game, to propose - and the girl, Tammy Li, said yes. It seems that the couple is doing great and even greater things are coming to them, since P...

16 April 2008
04:21 GMT

Heavyweight Devs Picking up on the iPhone SDK

Earlier this week, news broke out about the 100,000 SDK downloads, garnered in no more than four days since the kit's official release on March 6. It has recently been confirmed that big names such as THQ, PopCap, Namco NetSuite and more, are eager to bless iPhone users with their products.Apple's March 6 e...

13 March 2008
07:00 GMT

PopCap Hits Ready to Invade the PS2

Yes, there are at most 10 types of casual game concepts out there and developers keep rebuilding them, changing the graphics or the story a little - but they are still the same. Yes, all these games keep selling. PopCap, at least, is one of the companies that came with some new things and, why not to admit it, they r...

11 March 2008
03:59 GMT

PopCap Survey Reveals That Casual Is Good. Wow...!

PopCap.com's latest and largest survey of casual gamers has recently revealed that nearly three quarters (72%) of parents/grandparents forbid their kids/grandkids to play hardcore video games. Why? Only they know exactly, but it has been proved that "parents tend to be somewhat more protective of their daughters...

11 October 2007
03:17 GMT

PopCap Makes FREE Online Version of Peggle

Since Peggle is ridiculously popular nowadays, PopCap has considered a free version of the game. As such, an official report coming from the casual games developer says that they've launched this web version of the game, which can be played for free on PopCap's official site and MSN's Game Zone with ot...

6 September 2007
05:00 GMT

Chuzzle, Little Furball Invasion on Handsets

PopCap Games has just announced that Chuzzle will be available on BlackBerry smartphones from now on. The game has managed to be highly successful at retail and on the Web, where millions of people have already played it.What is bound to surely make a mobile phone game successful is just how addictive it turns out to...

3 August 2007
04:57 GMT

Free Bejeweled Game for the iPhone

PopCap Games has just launched a version of its Bejeweled game for the Safari Web browser. The best thing about the offer is that the game comes fully for free.Bejeweled is the first puzzle game to be available for free on mobile phones. The iPhone comes with no games packed, which makes this news even more appealing...

31 July 2007
06:00 GMT

PopCap's Jason Kapalka on Casual Ripoffs

No one needs an update on how successful casual games such as Zuma and Bejeweled are. Some say that the video games market is packed full with them leaving less room for bigger titles that deserve more attention. The truth is somewhere in between as both genres (so to speak) are equally important. The thing is, some ...

28 June 2007
04:40 GMT

PopCap Launches the Dampness-Filled Canals of Venice onto the PC

Why don't we leave aside "cold" and shallow titles lacking a great storyline and characters, and which focus mainly on violence and primary instincts, and talk about a more retro-action kind of game, set in the dampness-filled canals of Renaissance Italy's famed Venice. This PC title launched by PopCap Game...

22 June 2007
10:10 GMT

More Bejeweled from EA Mobile

Electronic Arts Inc. recently announced that PopCap Games, Inc. has extended the licensing agreement for Bejeweled which grants EA Mobile the exclusive worldwide mobile publishing rights to Bejeweled and Bejeweled 2 through 2008. According to internal data, Bejeweled has been a consistent top-10 selling mobile game a...

12 March 2007
05:47 GMT


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