Steam News · Jul 13, 2011
EA has bought casual gaming giant PopCap Games in a deal worth $1.3 billion. The Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies creator will receive $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. PopCap will be given an additional $550 million in bonuses in next few years for hitting money-making milestones. I'd like that kind of dosh please. PopCap has 400 staff. "As some of you may have heard, ...
Steam News · Feb 16, 2011
Casual games like Peggle and Bejeweled help ease the symptoms of clinical depression, according to a new study. The survey, conducted by East Carolina University and underwritten by PopCap Games, followed 59 patients suffering from depression for a month. Some of them played PopCap titles Bejeweled 2, Peggle and Bookworm Adventures for a set amount of time each day, while a 'control' group surfed ...
Steam News · Nov 2, 2010
We're giving away 10,000 copies of Bejeweled 2 this evening. If you're hoping to get one, please go to your User Control Panel and make sure you're signed up to receive our newsletter. If that box isn't checked when we send them out, we're not allowed to e-mail you stuff like this, so you won't receive one. If you're not signed up to our community at all, of course, do that first - you're not too ...
Steam News · Nov 1, 2010
It's PopCap week here on PCGamer.com, kicking off with the first juicy details of Bejeweled 3. And as a special gift to those signed up to our site, we're giving away 10,000 copies of Bejeweled 2 - usually £14.99. All you have to do is be a registered member of our site at around 5pm tomorrow evening GMT (1pm EDT), and be signed up to receive our newsletter. If you've already signed up but aren'...
Steam News · Nov 1, 2010
PopCap Games are the creators of Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies, each of them one of the biggest and most lovable games on PC. When casual and social games are reaching ever larger audiences and their developers are getting a bad reputation for poor design practices, how have PopCap managed to find fans amongst gamers and grannies alike? To find out, I visited the studio and interviewe...
