Bejeweled is an eye-roller. It’s The Da Vinci Code of video games or the Lady Gaga or whatever your favourite example is of something that far too many people are into. More »
It’s Christmastime, one of the few times where old-fashoioned snail matters anymore. Some companies send clever cards, like the ones we featured yesterday. Other companies send ViewMasters, the old-school 3D viewer that told stories through a series of still film frames. More »
PopCap Games is “retiring” Bejeweled 2 + Blitz from iTunes today, replacing it with another version of Bejeweled that sells for the same price, but which doesn’t come with Blitz. More »
Zynga rocketed to fame with titles like FarmVille and Mafia Wars. When Mafia Wars 2 launched, the number of players peaked at 2.5 million, but dropped to 900,000 earlier this month, with players complaining that the game just wasn’t as fun. More »
It’s Pumpkins Vs Zombies as PopCap’s zombie temp worker tries his hand at gourd gutting and cutting. Then a rave breaks out. More »
Bejeweled 3 is an excellent video game. Normal people play it on computers. But special people — people who work at PopCap, the studio behind the Bejeweled series — get to play it on a massive touch-sensitive TV right in the lobby of their headquarters. More »
Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical. More »
According to Forbes, Zynga, the folks behind Angry Birds, apparently wanted to buy PopCap, which was recently sold to EA for $US750 million, for $US1 billion in cash. [Gamasutra]
