Category Archives: PopCap

Plants vs. Zombies creator George Fan is one of the employees at PopCap who have been laid-off by the company, according to a blog post on 1UP. However, Shack notes Fan wasn’t involved with Plants vs Zombies 2. New broke yesterday that the EA-owned studio had made a number of cuts at its Seattle headquarters and its Dublin location and the later is also being evaluated to see if things can be improved “without having to close the operation.”

PopCap has laid off over 50 employees at its Seattle headquarters and its studio in Dublin has also seen redundancies, according to the firm’s co-founder John Vechey.

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Following yesterday’s rumour of impending lay-offs at PopCap, VG247 has been told that the developer has been making cuts for months.

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Plants Vs Zombies 2 has been revealed by PopCap, and is heading your way in 2013.

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Whispers say PopCap has something quite unusual in store for its heretofore tower defence charmer, Plants vs Zombies.

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A mobile gaming survey commissioned by PopCap has found a growing pool of consumers hungry for mobile gaming.

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PopCap and Wooga have pulled titles off Google+, less than a year after games launched on the social service. Wooga plans to pull all three titles Bubble Island, Diamond Dash and Monster World, by July 1. PopCap’s only title on the service, Bejeweled Blitz, will be pulled as early as next week. Both firms are pulling the titles due to the lack of support for the social networking service as compared to Facebook. After the pull, 40 games will remain on Google + from makers such as Zynga and Rovio. Thanks, Social Games Observer. Via Polygon.

Two keen PopCap fans will play Solitaire Blitz for 30 hours straight in an attempt to secure a Guinness World Record. The casual developer has gone all out in support of the attempt, organising a donation hub with all proceeds to charity:water. The marathon kicks off on June 26. Visit the Charity Marathon section of the app’s Facebook hub for more information and throw a few dollars in the hat.

Popcap’s confirmed on the US PS Blog the PS3 version of Bejeweled 3 will release on the US PS Store later today. The game will come with eight gameplay modes – including four secret modes – as well as 20 badges and 12 trophies. No price is mentioned, though.

Popcap has announced through a press release that the iOS version of the popular Plants vs. Zombies will be receiving multiple updates.

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Popcap’s announced it’ll release an Xbox Live Arcade version of Zuma’s Revenge this summer. Globally supported in in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, it’ll feature Boss Rush and Weekly Challenge and a new player progression system for 800 MS points.

PopCap’s next game is a Facebook-only affair, according to IndustryGamers. Solitaire Blitz joins the casual developer’s other social network efforts, Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz, in March. A social version of Solitaire seems like an oxymoron, but PopCap has promised to work its magic on the classic single-player card game. Expect a small-scale beta soon, and see a trailer through the break.

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ZipZapPlay’s Facebook game Baking Life is to close, giving players no option to transfer purchases and progress to another game in PopCap’s casual stable.

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Sing with me now: There’s a zombie on your la-awn, there’s a zombie on your la-awn. Now put one on your shiny new handheld.

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PopCap has quietly updated the iOS version of Plants vs Zombie to version 1.9, adding in two new ways to play.

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You might remember this video from way back in September. PopCap originally released this video during TGS for no apparent reason at all. Today we’re getting word that PopCap has made the song available for download on iTunes with all of the profits going to charity.

The charity involved is called Concern Worldwide and works to benefit some of the poorest places on Earth. If you’ve got £0.79/$0.99 to spare then head on over to iTunes to pick up a copy for a good cause. The music video is embedded after the break.

Via Destructoid.
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PopCap plans to release two Bejeweled games for iOS, which will retire the current version of Bejeweled 2 + Blitz in order to switch over to a new freemium F2P model, which recently launched on portable Apple systems. Blitz contains the same 60-second gameplay as the previous version, and includes Facebook integration and a new user-interface for the Retina display screen. Coins will act as the currency behind the F2P version, and players will be able to unlock additional coins using The Daily Spin mode once per day. Bejeweled will be re-released with HD graphics and retina display support with the following three game modes: Classic, Zen, and Diamond Mine. Thanks, Shack.

Amazon has announced Facebook, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, are coming to Amazon’s AppStore, along with EA, Gameloft, PopCap, and Zynga all for the launch of Kindle Fire. Rovio is as well although that was pretty much a given, due to the Angry Birds logo which popped up on screen during the device’s unveiling. The first generation of Kindle Fire won’t have access to Google’s Android Marketplace, this news should be a bit of a reielf to early adopters. Games already announced for the tablet include: Airport Mania, Battleheart, Cut the Rope, Doodle Fit, Doodle Jump, Fruit Ninja, and Jenga. Thanks, IndustryGamers.

EA has announced in New York City today that the latest game from casual game mega-company PopCap will be called Popcorn Dragon. More »

So much of the news out of Tokyo Game Show is so big and serious that we figured we’d kick things off this Australian morning with something a little lighter. A rap video from PopCap, starring Crazy Dave from Plants vs. Zombies.

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