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PopCap - more games heading to DS, Wii development confirmed

2008-07-25 01:17:51 by GoNintendo Top Stories in GoNintendo
 
...PopCap Games 1UP : So, other than the obvious reason of saying, Hey, theres some more money we can make, why did you decide to take these games to the DS, and make the DS the first hardware in your broadening strategy to expand PopCap to new platforms Greg Canessa : Well as you know, Nintendo DS actually isnt the first in terms of the...
 
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PopCap's special promotion gives to breast cancer charity [update]

2008-05-01 05:41:00 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...PopCap Games have decided to run a special promotion, with proceeds going to a breast cancer charity. From today (May 1st) through Mother's Day (May 11th), PopCap will give 30% of the price of each game sold to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure For this year's Mother's Day promotion, we wanted to make a significant contribution to a cause that...
 
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PopCap Spending $1 Million on Next Game

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2008-05-14 19:41:45 by Chris in Gaming Today
...PopCap Games is making news for a new game costing over $1 million. This could quite possibly be a record in the casual industry, PopCap co-founder John Vechey revealed to CasualGaming.biz The reason for the large budget is mainly due to troubles in the games development cycle. Vechey explained, Its been in production for some time we took a...
 
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Puzzling: PopCap's 'family friendly' zombie game

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2008-11-18 20:30:00 by Randy Nelson in Joystiq
...PopCap Games , known for turning players into zombies with games like Bejeweled and Peggle , is set to actually make a game about zombies. It won't be Left 4 Dead or RE5 industrial-grade undead blasting, though - in true PopCap form, this zombie-fest will be family friendly ... and likely quite, um, infectious Speaking to TheBBPS , PopCap's...
 
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PopCap Confirms No Plans For DS Peggle

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2008-02-07 23:42:04 by Brian Lockhart in DigitalBattle
...PopCap suddenly got a hold of these reports, they were very quick to point out that this simply was not the case. A port of the extremely popular Peggle makes a lot of sense on the DS platform, especially since we already know XBLA will be receiving a version all of its own later this year PopCap has issues a press release following up on the...
 
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PopCap founder: we can destroy the depth of console games

2008-02-13 05:01:00 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...PopCap games doesn't like to think of themselves that way. With over a billion total downloads of their games -- 10-million plus with Bejeweled alone -- you could say that they are sort of a big deal If you go by this excerpt from an upcoming interview between PopCap founder John Vechey and CVG , they kind of think they are to: "I think we...
 
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PopCap Game's Budget Sets Record

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2008-05-13 14:49:28 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...PopCap Games will be launching an unnamed title whose budget has already topped $1 million -- a record in the casual games sector It's been in production for some time - we took a few wrong turns with the product and turned back to go in different directions," said PopCap co-founder Jon Vechey The $1 million budget pales in comparison to...
 
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Peggle coming to DS! (plus two more PopCap games)

2008-07-25 01:01:15 by GoNintendo Top Stories in GoNintendo
 
...PopCap was bringing Peggle to the DS? Then, PopCap got all angry and told us that it wasnt coming to the DS. Well, it looks like PopCap got over all those development hurdles, and the game is indeed coming to Nintendos portable. This is going to be the next truly addictive DS game. It is due out this Winter, handled by Q-Entertainment, and...
 
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PopCap to develop Chuzzle, other games for SNAP Mobile

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2008-02-18 17:30:26 by Editor in QuicklyBored
PopCap Games has announced that they will be developing a number of games for Nokias SNAP Mobile platform, starting with the popular puzzle game Chuzzle PopCap will be retooling the games to fit SNAPs multiplayer-centric model. The multiplayer version of Chuzzle will feature community offerings like chat and leaderboards, although the single...
 
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PopCap bringing Heavy Weapon, Zuma to PS2 on a single disc

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2008-03-10 00:00:00 by Jason Dobson in Joystiq