Launching on Steam, Switch, and Xbox One on Friday the 13th (and PS4 later), Roundguard is basically Peggle turned into a dungeon-crawling role-playing game. A ball-bouncing roguelike, if you will. In other words, it’s my jam.

Peggle 2, PopCap's previously Microsoft-exclusive black hole time vortex of sheer addiction, is finally coming to PlayStation 4.

There used to be a cool Peggle game on the New Zealand App Store. The same Peggle you could get everywhere else in the world. That game is now gone. In its place is a new Peggle game that is just the worst.

Everybody loves Popcap's Peggle. Everybody loves monkeys. Sega does the maths and gets Super Monkey Ball Bounce, or as I'm going to call it -- Seggle.

Rob and Shireen are bigtime Peggle fans. Big enough that Rob went to PopCap and asked if they'd help him pop the question. Hell yes they would! Game studios love this kind of thing. But just in case Rob and Shireen weren't like, an actual thing, Peggle 2 made sure to leave a way out. A hella awkward way out.

Peggle is a puzzle game that involves clearing coloured pegs from a board by shooting balls from the top of the screen, but that's not what the game is about. It's about getting to the explosively colourful celebration at the end of each level, and Peggle 2's celebrations are the most satisfying yet.

Peggle 2 is coming Dec. 9 to the Xbox One via Xbox Live. This comes from PopCap, in a preview of the game in VentureBeat yesterday. Peggle 2 will have 120 levels and run $US11.99.

Peggle 2 will be out "a few weeks later in December" and not on the day Xbox One launches, PopCap has said. An earlier listing by Microsoft called it a launch-day title. The game is a timed exclusive to Xbox One.

I had a bit of cognitive whiplash when I saw Peggle 2 this afternoon. Its predecessor is a game that's everywhere. Your mum or even grandmother probably plays it, or something heavily inspired by it. The browser version of the first Peggle is what helped its viral spread but there I was playing it on an Xbox One development unit.

Revealed this morning as an Xbox One timed exclusive, Peggle 2 got a little more stage time at EA's Gamescom presser than it did at E3. It paraded its balls and pegs like it was in some sort of first-ever gameplay trailer.

While more mainstream video games are under fire for causing depression, a new study at East Carolina University finds that playing casual puzzle games is an effective way to combat clinical depression and anxiety. Guess who underwrote the study?

As if you needed proof that LittleBigPlanet 2's Create tools were incredibly and almost intimidatingly flexible, here comes an almost perfect recreation of Popcap's Peggle. We've already seen Wolfenstein 3D and Flower recreations, but this is every bit as awesome an achievement.

Plants Vs Zombies, a wonderful video game that is on just about every device other than Androids and toasters, will be out for Androids in "Q2", the folks at Popcap tell us. That means April-June. We played it briefly this week. Looks sharp. Peggle's a Q2 Android game too.

The makers of massive hits Bejeweled, Peggle, and Plants vs Zombies are eying 2011 as the year for aggressive expansion, PopCap Games head Dave Roberts tells Forbes.

If you enjoy Peggle, felines and raw fish rolled in rice, then you'll love Sushi Cat, a game about getting a cat fat enough to activate an automatic door.

What happens when you take Peggle, remove the pegs and add sushi, remove the balls and add a hungry cat? This is what happens.

PopCap Games is practically giving away Peggle Nights, offering the PC and Mac nighttime sequel to the amazing Peggle for little more than signing up for a PopCap Passport account. That's just a few keystrokes and checkbox clicks!

Usually the best gifts we get for the holidays are the ones we buy for ourselves. In my case, this would be an iPhone.

Looks like I picked a good time to finally get an iPhone. PopCap Games - developers of many addictive games like Peggle and Bookworm - are having an App Store sale.