Category Archives: PopCap

Plants Vs Zombies: Adventures has launched on Facebook. PopCap’s new cultivation-em-up is playable right now.

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PopCap’s social spin-off to its popular tower defence title arrives on Facebook this month.

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The long-awaited Plants vs Zombies 2 finally has a release window, and an extremely pertinent subtitle.

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Brenna is never, ever going to give PopCap any money for Solitaire Blitz, and has no idea if this makes her part of the problem, or the solution.

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In a press release regarding the newly-revealed social effort Plants vs Zombies Adventures, PopCap also mentioned that the sequel to the best-selling tower defence title has been delayed. Originally expected sometime in northern spring, Plants vs Zombies 2 is now lasted for an “early summer” release. We still know almost nothing about the much-anticipated title, but you can probably expect it on a range of platforms thanks to EA’s porting grunt.

PopCap has quietly unveiled Plants vs Zombies Adventures, a social adaptation of its much-loved tower defence effort now in beta on Facebook. Only a few players are onboard, with wider availability expected during northern spring. The “highly accessible” social spin-off promises exclusive new plants and zombie and all-new forms of combat, sending players on road trips to counter the undead menace in new locations, and was outed by domain registrations earlier this month.

Peggle Deluxe developer PopCap has made its pachinko-meets-unicorns classic absolutely free to all. No seriously, what are you waiting for? Head to the link below and get it while you can.

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PopCap’s latest release is not, alas, an expansion to Plants vs Zombies, but instead a new take on Solitaire using the publisher’s now-famous Blitz formula. Having already attracted a large following on Facebook and launched via the App Store today, Solitaire Blitz is free, and available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It gives players 60 seconds to clear decks and also go on an “underwater adventure”. Somehow.

EA has made a number of domain registrations for something called Plants vs Zombies Adventure, as dug up by industry gumshoe Superannuation. The registrations were all made in early March. There’s no indication whatsoever what it might be, but given PopCap’s recent liking for Facebook spin-offs of its properties, like Bejeweled Blitz, I’m putting $5 on “social game” – however it may be worth dusting off this old rumour about a multiplayer shooter set in the PvZ universe.

Popcap’s excellent spin on tower defence, Plants vs Zombies, is App of the Week. You can grab it free on iPad or iPhone through February 28. If you or anyone you know is yet to pick up this essential, go go go.

PopCap games are on sale through February 12 to celebrate the Year of the Black Water Snake, which should help take your mind off the fact Asian soothsayers predict a tumultuous period ahead. No matter: you can get Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled 3, Peggle Nights and many other goodies for 50% off. Screw the doom-mongers: Bookworm is waiting.

PopCap and Hasbro have teamed up to turn Bejeweled and Bejeweled Blitz into face-to-face games. Polygon reports Bejeweled will task players with matching tiles and come with a download code for Bejeweled 3, while Bejeweled Blitz requires the rapid creation of card stacks and comes with free in-app items for the Facebook game. It’s not the weirdest board game the industry has produced; have you seen Words with Friends? Ha ha, gosh.

The studio behind Plants Vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Peggle has posted an ad in search of a generalist software engineer to build a AAA console title and with experience using the Frostbite 2 engine.
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Plants vs Zombies trading cards are on sale at 20% off until November 30, with all proceeds donated to an unnamed charity. Polygon reports you can grab the cards for $79.20 from PopCap’s online store; each box contains 24 packs of seven cards. You’ll get all sixty unique cards in a full box, and PopCap will throw in a signed card or a sketch from original PvZ artist Rich Werner, the game’s original artist, during the sale.

Popcap and the American Dental Association have joined forces to help combat “zombie mouth” this Hallowe’en.

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PopCap Dublin has been shuttered by EA. The news broke after studio employees confirmed the closure on Twitter.

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A Plants vs. Zombies Pinball table will release for Zen Pinball 2, Zen Studios and PopCap have announced. Players will use the pinball to collect sunlight as well as money in order to purchase plants. The pinball table will run you $2.99 on PSN which includes Vita and PS3 Cross-Buy features. Alternatively, it will run you 240 MS Points on XBLA where the game is known as Pinball FX 2. It releases next week. A trailer is below.

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PopCap’s lay-offs are part of the studio’s integration with EA, according to EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau, and also part of the publisher’s new focus on mobile gaming.

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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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