Tag Archives: Bejeweled

Mon, Jan 07, 2013 | 22:27 GMT

Bejeweled, Bejeweled Blitz getting the board game treatment

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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.

Wed, Jul 13, 2011 | 12:58 BST

Megaton Shocker: EA buys PopCap for $750 million

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The biggest mushroom cloud we’ve seen for a long time: EA’s announced that it’s to buy Plants vs Zombies and Peggle creator PopCap for $750 million.

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Fri, Apr 15, 2011 | 15:18 BST

PopCap revenue hits $100m for 2010, up almost 25%

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The casual gaming giant posts impressive year-on-year figures. Plants and zombies rejoice.

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Wed, Apr 06, 2011 | 17:04 BST

Bejeweled 2 and 3 game soundtracks available for download

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The music to PopCap’s Bejeweled 2 and Bejewled 3 can now be purchased and listened to as separate soundtracks via download.

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Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | 17:58 GMT

PopCap thinks iPad “will change gaming” in three years

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PopCap has said that iPad will change the face of gaming eventually, but it may take three years time and a hardware update to do so.

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Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | 20:26 GMT

Bejeweled is 10, has sold 50 million units

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PopCap has announced that it will mark the 10th birthday of Bejeweled with a 10-month long celebration beginning today.

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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | 19:24 GMT

EA to release three games for Android

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EA Mobile is to release three game’s for Google’s Android OS, the division announced today.

Tetris, Bejeweled and Monopoly will all reach the platform in November.

“Android is another exciting new platform to offer customers great games with enhancements like touch and tilt capabilities,” said EA Mobile’s Adam Sussman.

Get all the Androidy mobile details you could ever need through the link.

Thu, Mar 13, 2008 | 08:32 GMT

iPhone SDK downloads top 100,000, PopCap and Namco on board

Acocrding to this, the beta version of the iPhone SDK has been downloaded over 100,000 times since it was launched last week.

In addition, both Namco and PopCap have pledge support for the platform with Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle, Pac-Man and Galaga all confirmed for release.

Still no idea when you’re actually going to be able to use the App Store on iTunes and actually play any of this. Quite exciting though, isn’t it? Apart from the Peggle bit, obviously.