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Bejeweled is an eye-roller. It's The Da Vinci Code of video games or the Lady Gaga or whatever your favorite example is of something that far too many people are into. More »
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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 »
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Laura and Chris Sheriff will celebrate their first wedding anniversary this week. Among their favorite past-times: playing video games. He's more of a Call of Duty person. She prefers Bejeweled. More »
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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 »
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What will the $750 million buy out of PopCap Games, makers of Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, do to the beloved developer of quirky, casually engaging games? It could mean you get future PopCap Games faster—but it doesn't mean the end of games like Peggle in World of Warcraft. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5820658&view=rss&microfeed=true PopCap games is auctioning off art from its games for children's charities in the US and UK. The auction runs from now until July 12- and 100% of the proceeds go to said charities. [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/popcap-auctions-sketches-of-zombies-unicorns-for-childrens-charities.ars] More »
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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? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5761319&view=rss&microfeed=true PopCap is bringing the 60-second action of Facebook's Bejeweled Blitz to Xbox Live Arcade later this year with all-new modes, including 16-player party play and head-to-head via Xbox Live. More »
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Aiur Chef? Left 2 Die? StarJeweled? Blizzard DOTA? What's going on with the four new official game modes coming to StarCraft 2? These four visual guides will give you the skinny. More »
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Today is Binary Day, being that it's 10/10/10 - and that goes for both here and Europe. And to continue its 10-month celebration of the 10th anniversary of Bejeweled, PopCap has an offer that is free to you today. More »
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PopCap Games, the company behind ridiculously addictive games like Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has teamed up with MMO company NCsoft to create PopCap World, an online multiplayer social game service launching in Korea later this year. More »
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PopCap kicks off a ten month long tenth birthday celebration today for Bejeweled, the causal gaming sensation that's sold more than 50 million units and stifled the productivity of an entire generation. More »
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The former general manager of Xbox Live Arcade and v.p. at Peggle studio PopCap is going to Blizzard. Let the development speculation begin. More »
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Zombies are THE pop-cultural touchstones of our times. There is probably a deep-seated psychological reason for this based upon post-millennial angst, Generation Z nihilism and half a dozen other things, but I for one can't be bothered looking into it. Let's just say that if an actual Zombie Apocalypse were to happen tomorrow, I doubt if there would be any more zombies around than are currently stinking up our screens. More »
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One of PopCap Games biggest money makers got a sequel in Bejeweled Twist yesterday, with the gem swapping, color matching king of casual games officially launching on PopCap's web site. You may not be excited, but the bean counters at PopCap and millions of cubicle-bound workers looking to shirk for just $19.95 are psyched. More »
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Bejeweled is a big, big deal. It's also a big money maker, with casual gamers dropping a mind-blowing $300 million on the game over the course of Bejeweled's eight-year existence across every platform PopCap Games can squeeze the game onto. The publisher is hoping to keep that money train a-rollin', announcing Bejeweled Twist, a new game in the series that, if you can believe it, has been in development for three years. More »
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Had to rub my eyes when I saw this Onion-esque headline at Wired. "Bejeweled, Warcraft Combine to Form World's Most Addictive Game." No, it's not April Fool's. The puzzle game will be added into WoW next Thursday, allowing players to kill time when they're on long, tedious tasks, like waiting for a raid or gold/item-farming. What's interesting on top of packing one world-class timesuck inside of another (in real world terms, this would be like snorting bacon-flavored meth), is how it all came to pass. Michael Fromwiller, a student at San Jose State, wrote an add-on he called Besharded, which came reasonably close to mimicking PopCap's hit. But it didn't come close enough for PopCap, which instead of sending out a C&D letter, reached out to Fromwiller and hired him to do a version of the real thing. Next week it's available for WoW, with no opposition from Blizzard. Wired has the word straight from PopCap itself, but a no-comment from Blizzard. Bejeweled, Warcraft Combine to Form World's Most Addictive Game [Wired] More »
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Gamasutra has an interesting interview up with some of PopCap's people — co-founder John Vechey, CEO David Roberts and PR director Garth Chouteau — talking about the PopCap model and structure and the casual market at large. It's a reasonably lengthy interview with a couple of gems contained within: More »
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p3ng has a special lady in his life. So special that, in January, the time had come to propose. Guy didn't want to do the standard dropping-to-one-knee thing, though, so he got a little clever: he hacked up a DS copy of Bejeweled and turned it into a cute little digital wedding proposal. Who can say no to that kind of effort? Not her, that's for sure. More »
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Here's how the story goes: Dude creates Tetris, dude gets no royalties. Poor, poor dude. WRONG! Creator Alexey Pajitnov tells GameSpot: More »
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The long nightmare of not being able to play Bejeweled on an iPhone has finally come to an end as PopCap Games announced it has released an iPhone specific version of its popular (with girls) jewel arranging game. An announcement like this requires measured hyperbole as PopCap's director of mobile platforms Andrew Stein was overheard saying that the company is "excited to be providing the most popular puzzle game of the 21st century to users of the most advanced mobile device yet created." Wow! More »
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I am intrigued by Joel Johnson's post over on Dethroner about Puzzle Quest and not just because hearing Johnson enthuse about a game is almost akin to seeing Regan cry about policy problems. More »
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So I was surfing channels last night, trying to find something to watch instead of American Idol while waiting for House to come on, and I noticed a new channel on my DirecTV guide. It's called the Game Lounge, and it's an interactive channel that features casual games for the whole family to play right on their satellite box. Think Xbox Live Arcade's puzzle and board game section, along with games based on popular kid shows, like Spongebob. The channel will eventually feature competitive games where subscribers can compete for prizes and money. More »
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With mainstream video game release budgets creeping well over $20 million, developers and publishers can take solace in the fact that casual games are cheap and less time consuming to produce. Right? Wrong. More »
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The Australian Lottery Commission have capitalized on the world's insane Bejeweled Mania by releasing a themed lottery ticket after the famed PopCap casual game. F for Effort, Lottery Commission. When have you ever seen that layout of gems on a Bejeweled field? Thanks, Matt! Florian Eckhardt More »
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In downtown San Francisco earlier today, big brother site Gizmodo was deployed to cover the Apple Showtime event. Along with new Nanos, Shuffles, updated iPods, new iTunes movie store, and iTV, Apple unveiled its new video game line-up for the iPod. Titles include: Tetris, Bejeweled, Pac-Man, Cubis 2, Mahjon, Mini Golf, Texas Hold'em, Vortex and Zuma. Not bad for device whose previously "games" included Brick, Parachute, Solitaire and Music Quiz. The Giz guys even have a handy guide on how to get iPod games to work on your 5G iPod. Where are these iGames available? At the iTunes stores. When? Right now! Brian Ashcraft More »
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PopCap, a company the rules the roost in most of the world with their casual games, has nevertheless had problems infiltrating Japan. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=199394&view=rss&microfeed=true Wired's Mr. Know-It-All channeled a little Emily Post in his latest column and answered a reader's question about the propriety of playing Bejeweled while on a conference call. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=191825&view=rss&microfeed=true Gameloft got their spiel out for Paris Hilton's Jewel Jam in good time, managing not to mention the dreaded B word. You know the one we mean: Bejeweled. And yes, unlike Ms Hilton, Gameloft's rep got the name of their game right. More »
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