Monday, August 22nd, 2011 at
1:00 pm
Filed under: Other Games
Folks, if you love Plants vs. Zombies, you’re in luck. This week we’re giving our fans the chance to win some seriously awesome Plants vs. Zombies swag. I’m talking goodies like hats, magnets, and even Plants vs. Zombies action…
Friday, August 19th, 2011 at
1:20 pm
Filed under: NewsMan, there’s nothing like a feel-good study to cheer you up on a Friday. PopCap Games, creator of Bejeweled and Zuma Blitz for Facebook, has helped in a study by Goldsmiths University that finds some comforting results for gamer parent…
Friday, July 22nd, 2011 at
6:20 pm
Filed under: Other GamesThis is the double whammy: both touching and badass at the same time. (How does PopCap do it?) The company’s–recently acquired by EA–indie mobile games studio 4th & Battery has teamed up with 10-year-old Owain Weinert to c…
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at
4:05 pm
Filed under: NewsThe Facebook Game Faceoff continues, but this time, on a much smaller screen. Wooga announced that its hit Facebook gem-basher, Diamond Dash, will hit iOS devices this summer. Inside Social Apps reports that the Berlin-based company wi…
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at
12:00 pm
Filed under: Other GamesYou know, EA has good reason to celebrate buying PopCap for a potential $1.3 billion. For one, it has made some of the most recognizable casual games ever created. But for two, when it crafts new IP (intellectual property), you …
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 at
4:04 pm
Filed under: Game of the Day, News
Turns out (one of) the rumors from the past few weeks are true — Bejeweled-creator PopCap has been purchased by Electronic Arts for upwards of a billion dollars, an unnamed source confirms for Games.com this afterno…
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 at
10:55 am
Filed under: NewsRemember that mystery buyer that was rumored to pick up PopCap for an insane $1 billion? How about the scuttlebutt that a mystery shopper was eying up Ohai? As it turns out, they’re both EA, the veteran games publisher that has tailed …
Friday, July 1st, 2011 at
11:00 am
Filed under: Bejeweled Blitz, Other Games
Either way you look at it, you’re still blowing up valuable rocks. Welcome back to Facebook Game Faceoff, where we pit two similar Facebook games against each other, and leave it up to you to decide the ultimat…
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at
4:45 pm
Filed under: News While most sites right now are abuzz with the rumored auctioning of PopCap Games to Electronic Arts (“Auction item number one: PopCap … the whole thing! Bidding starts at … $1 billion!”), there’s a smaller, equally important one s…
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 at
5:35 pm
Filed under: Other Games
With all of the crying I’ve done on the blog for Peggle to come to Facebook, you’d think I’d be happy at this moment. But nay, this is not Peggle for Facebook, but HotShot. Developed by PlayQ, HotShot is for all intents and pur…