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| Sep 22, 2015 | Want your kids to learn another language? Teach them code | Among Malcolm Turnbull’s first words as the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, and hence heading for the Prime Minister’s job, were: “The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, that is innovative, that is creative... |
| Apr 25, 2015 | Is Seattle Silicon Valley’s Next Favorite Stop? | Hadi Partovi Contributor
Hadi Partovi is a technology investor and entrepreneur and is the co-founder and chief executive of the Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org.
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| Aug 19, 2014 | PlayFab Raises $2.5M For Its Gaming Backend Service | Developing a game is hard. Along with coding how the game’s rules or world works, you’ve got characters to model and animate, level artwork, music, voice, acting, and writing. Thankfully, game engines like Unreal and Unity and their respect... |
| Dec 1, 2013 | Peggle 2 gives puzzle addicts a big reason to get an Xbox One (preview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Electronic Arts’ PopCap Games is releasing Peggle 2, a sequel to the physics-driven puzzle game Peggle, on Dec. 9 as a downloadable tit... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Phone And Tablet Games For Grown-Ups | iStockPhoto/ThinkStock |
| Jan 7, 2013 | EA Popcap’s Bejeweled Crosses Over Into Real-World, Physical Games Through Hasbro Agreement | Angry Birds-maker Rovio has said that it eventually expects that at least half or more of its revenues will come from physical goods in the future. It’s not the only developer that has popularized a brand on mobile and social platforms only... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | PopCap CTO & Veteran Adobe Exec Frits Habermann Joins Learning Platform Lynda.com To Help It Go Mobile, Global | Online video learning platform lynda.com is making a big addition to its management team today, announcing that it has hired Frits Habermann as its new chief technical officer. Habermann joins lynda.com from EA’s PopCap Games, where he was ... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Latest MacHeist Bundle Now Available For $29, Over 1.5M Members Should Help It Set Records Again | MacHeist 4‘s puzzles have been keeping members buzzy this year, but now the curtain gets pulled back and the entire software lineup is revealed. After delivering four missions and four nano-missions, the MacHeist bundle now offers a full 15... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | Bad day for gaming continues as PopCap Games confirms layoffs | It’s a bad day in the game industry. Future Publishing announced the upcoming closure of the storied Nintendo Power magazine. Layoffs have been confirmed at THQ, Funcom, and now PopCap Games, the maker of the ubiquitous Plants vs. Zombies g... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | Bad day for gaming continues as PopCap Games confirms layoffs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s a bad day in the game industry. Future Publishing announced the upcoming closure of the storied Nintendo Power magazine. Layoffs h... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Electronic Arts | The game publisher that brought the world Madden NFL, The Sims and Battlefield has shed nearly 60% of its value in the last year, and its stock is down more than 80% from its all-time high. Why are investors so sour? Because despite being o... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | EA’s PopCap Heads Into Merchandise With Plants Vs. Zombies Toys, Underwear (!) & More | Want a zombie on your underwear? Good, because soon, you will have that opportunity. Today, there comes more proof that mobile gaming is the entertainment franchise opp of the future as EA-owned PopCap, makers of Plants vs. Zombies and the ... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | PopCap opens the product licensing floodgates for the first time | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PopCap Games is announcing today a number of deals in which it will license its popular video game franchises to makers of T-shirts, to... |
| Jan 20, 2012 | Angry bakers have fingers burned as Baking Life Facebook game gets the chop | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PopCap Games has angered virtual bakers on Facebook by deciding to shut the doors to its Baking Life app on Jan 31. Despite many users ... |
| Jan 20, 2012 | Angry bakers have fingers burned as Baking Life Facebook game gets the chop | PopCap Games has angered virtual bakers on Facebook by deciding to shut the doors to its Baking Life app on Jan 31. Despite many users having spent real money buying virtual ‘Zip Cash’ to use in the game, PopCap says any remaining currency ... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | PopCap Survey: Social Gamers Warming Up to Digital Goods | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As more people turn to social networks for a video game fix, they’re also getting friendlier with the idea of forking over real cash for in-game virtual currency and items, ac... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Review: Rayman Origins deserves your attention in this crowded month | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Rayman Origins is a contender for the title of the best 2D platforming game of this generation, and that’s no small feat. Everything le... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Gaming stamina and player growth is on the rise, PopCap survey says | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The percentage of the internet users in the U.S and the U.K. who play social games for periods greater than 15 minutes a week have near... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Amex plays virtual-currency-catchup by acquiring Sometrics | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
American Express (Amex) announced today it has acquired virtual currency company Sometrics, for $30 million, according to Tech Crunch.
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| Jul 21, 2011 | Meet the 10-year-old who just released an iPhone game (with some help from PopCap) | Remember the story of Owain Weinert? He’s the 10-year-old who dreamed of developing his own iOS game. Well, that dream is now a reality, thanks in part to the help of PopCap Games.
Weinert — who is battling pre-B Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia ... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | PopCap to fans: EA buyout is good | The announcement greeting visitors to PopCap's home page today.
One of Popcap Games’ defining corporate traits is the irreverent and lighthearted personality it conveys to the outside world. Following the announcement yesterday that gaming ... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | EA buying PopCap Games for up to $1.3 billion (Updated) | [Updated at 3 p.m.] The rumors were true: Seattle-based PopCap Games, maker of games such as Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies and Peggle, has reached a deal to be acquired by Electronic Arts for between $750 million $1.3 billion, with the pric... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Image: PopCap’s zombie greeting to the new bosses at EA | It’s a good thing to know that the folks over at PopCap haven’t lost their sense of humor– even though many of the employees were transformed into multi-millionaires today when Electronic Arts agreed to buy the Seattle game maker for as muc... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | EA Buys PopCap Games for up to $1.3B, Says Seattle Company Will Keep Doing its Thing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated at 3:40 pm] Never mind about that IPO. Electronic Arts announced today that it’s buying Seattle casual gaming company PopCap Games in a deal that could be worth up to... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Rumor factory churns on: EA now potential buyer for casual game maker PopCap | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game publisher Electronic Arts is the latest rumored suitor looking to buy casual games maker PopCap for more than $1 billion, accordin... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+ | Update: We’ve heard from multiple sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts.
Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the process of being acquired — and we’re heari... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | PopCap Games, Previously Talking Plenty About an IPO, Now Subject of $1B Buyout Report | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle’s PopCap Games, which makes well-known casual game titles like Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, has been making lots of noise about its plans to possibly seek an IPO ... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Updated: Is PopCap being bought for $1B? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PopCap, a game developer that focuses on casual quick-hit style games like Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, might be in talks to be ac... |
| May 26, 2011 | Will zombie and jewel games take PopCap to an IPO? | PopCap Games has been a consistent winner when it comes to making great games for casual audiences, or those who don’t consider themselves to be hardcore gamers. From Bejeweled to Plants vs Zombies, PopCap’s games are light-hearted and cart... |
| May 26, 2011 | Will zombie and jewel games take PopCap to an IPO? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PopCap Games has been a consistent winner when it comes to making great games for casual audiences, or those who don’t consider themsel... |
| May 18, 2011 | PopCap games takes Plants vs Zombies to China’s biggest social network | PopCap Games has developed the first-ever social adaptation of its Plants vs. Zombies game for China’s Renren social networking site.
Plants vs Zombies has been a huge hit for PopCap around the world on a variety of platforms. But the launc... |
| May 16, 2011 | Amazon Appstore Gets Exclusive PopCap Games, Including Plants vs. Zombies | Seattle-based gamemaker PopCap Games announced today that it has struck a deal with Amazon to offer its next two Android games – Chuzzle and Plants vs Zombies – exclusively via the Amazon Appstore.
Chuzzle goes on sale beginning tomorrow an... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | PopCap acquires ZipZapPlay while IPO looms | Creator of Bejeweled pushes toward social with purchase of Facebook game developer
The Web game acquisition roller coaster rides on.
Casual online game developer PopCap Games announced Friday that it has acquired ZipZapPlay, a social gaming... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Countering Zynga, PopCap Games buys ZipZapPlay | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In a counter-move against Zynga, game maker PopCap Games said today that it has acquired the San Francisco-based social game developer ... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Countering Zynga, PopCap Games buys ZipZapPlay | In a counter-move against Zynga, game maker PopCap Games said today that it has acquired the San Francisco-based social game developer ZipZapPlay. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The move could be one of the first for a more aggressiv... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | Apple rejects experimental PopCap game Unpleasant Horse | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PopCap Games unveiled an experimental label for risky games this week, called 4th & Battery. But the label’s first title, Unpleasan... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | PopCap Games forms a new label to experiment with games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PopCap Games has had no shortage of creativity over the years — its huge casual game hits include Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies. The ... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | PopCap Games forms a new label to experiment with games | PopCap Games has had no shortage of creativity over the years — its huge casual game hits include Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies. The company generated more than $100 million in revenues last year, and its games have been downloaded 1.5 bi... |
| Mar 31, 2011 | Plants vs. Zombies, The Knock-Off | A Chinese games company, ShunXiang Technology, has created a four-player, arcade version of Plants Vs. Zombies. “Great,” you say. “I love PvZ!” But wait, there’s more!
Popcap Games, creator of the original PvZ, did not authorize the clone a... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Our obsession with mobile games is growing (exclusive survey) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Our appetite for mobile games is growing, with more than a third of U.S. and U.K. adults saying that they play mobile games, according ... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Our obsession with mobile games is growing (exclusive survey) | Our appetite for mobile games is growing, with more than a third of U.S. and U.K. adults saying that they play mobile games, according to a new survey. This is a huge shift in consumer attitudes and it could have a big impact on the structu... |
| Dec 26, 2010 | The Top 40 iPhone Apps of 2010 | Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO and founder of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile application directory Appolicious. You can read his previous iPhone app picks here and here
The iT... |
| Oct 30, 2010 | Top 30 Android Apps Of All Time | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Alex Ahlund (@alexahlund), the former CEO of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile app directory Appolicious. He is currently an advisor to Appolicious. In his previous guest pos... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Bejeweled creator PopCap Games to launch social game service in Korea | Diving online for the first time, PopCap Games — which created the addictive casual game Bejeweled — said today it has teamed up with NCsoft to create an online multiplayer social game service for the Korean market later this year.
PopCap W... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | txtNation partners with M-Cloud for Payment Wrapper technology | Plymouth and London, England July 2010– txtNation and M-Cloud are proud to announce a partnership today that adds txtNation’s mobile billing gateway to M-Clouds advanced wrapper technology for ‘new to market’ advanced consumer billing on mo... |
| Apr 22, 2010 | PopCap’s John Vechey: the iPad shines with three-handed gaming (video) | I enjoyed a lovely week off last week without a phone or a computer. But I did have my iPad, and I shared it with the kids. As I watched them, I realized that the 9.7-inch screen, which can detect 11 finger touches at the same time, is grea... |
| Apr 22, 2010 | PopCap’s John Vechey: the iPad shines with three-handed gaming (video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I enjoyed a lovely week off last week without a phone or a computer. But I did have my iPad, and I shared it with the kids. As I watche... |
| Apr 11, 2010 | From The China Social Game Summit 2010 in Beijing: State of the Industry And 6 Demos From Local Startups | Over the weekend, I attended the China Social Game Summit 2010 in Beijing, a two-day event that attracted over 400 international attendees and 80 speakers. According to the organizers (China’s leading social game service provider Appleap an... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Arkadium scores a million players for its first Facebook game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lots of casual game companies are trying to adapt to the popularity of social games on Facebook. They’re busy re-engineering games from... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Arkadium scores a million players for its first Facebook game | Lots of casual game companies are trying to adapt to the popularity of social games on Facebook. They’re busy re-engineering games from casual game web sites to run on the social network, often without success.
But Arkadium has scored a hit... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Social game makers: Our job is harder than you think | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social game makers took the stage this afternoon at our GamesBeat@GDC event in San Francisco, where much of the discussion revolved aro... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Social game makers: Our job is harder than you think | Social game makers took the stage this afternoon at our GamesBeat@GDC event in San Francisco, where much of the discussion revolved around how building social games differs from people’s preconceptions.
John Vechey (pictured above), co-foun... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Plants vs. Zombies game generates $1M in sales on iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you launched a console video game and sold $1 million worth, it would be a dismal failure. But in the green field of the iPhone, tha... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Plants vs. Zombies game generates $1M in sales on iPhone | If you launched a console video game and sold $1 million worth, it would be a dismal failure. But in the green field of the iPhone, that’s a big hit.
PopCap Games hit the $1 million revenue mark in the first nine days of sales of its Plants... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Bejeweled hits 50M games sold; will the next 50M be free? | Bejeweled hit new milestone as PopCap Games announced today that the 10-year-old casual game has now sold more than 50 million copies.
PopCap isn’t saying how many dollar sales the game has generated since its launch in 2000. But in August,... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Bejeweled hits 50M games sold; will the next 50M be free? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bejeweled hit new milestone as PopCap Games announced today that the 10-year-old casual game has now sold more than 50 million copies.
... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Check out the latest new speakers and new site for GamesBeat@GDC | We’re excited to unveil our latest speakers for GamesBeat@GDC, our executive game conference that takes place at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, March 10, at the Moscone convention center in San Francisco. We’ve created a Faceb... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Check out the latest new speakers and new site for GamesBeat@GDC | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re excited to unveil our latest speakers for GamesBeat@GDC, our executive game conference that takes place at the Game Developers Co... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Chinese Government To Police Social Games | Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Shanghai-based social market researchers Kai Lukoff and Lucas Englehardt from BloggerInsight, a company spun off from Web2Asia which crowdsources market intelligence through an online expert panel of b... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | PopCap Games raises $22.5 million to fund expansion into social games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For almost 10 years, PopCap Games has shown it can come up with one hit after another in the casual downloadable games business. One of... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | PopCap games raises $22.5 million | Developer of classic title, "Bejeweled" gets cash injection to build and expand into social media PopCap Games, a multi-platform video game developer, announced it has raised $22.5 million in funding led by Meritech Partners. Larr... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | PopCap Games raises $22.5 million to fund expansion into social games | For almost 10 years, PopCap Games has shown it can come up with one hit after another in the casual downloadable games business. One of its titles, Bejeweled, has been played more than a billion times. Now the company’s cashing in on its fa... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | PopCap Games Secures $22.5M in its First Funding Round | PopCap Games, the developer and publisher of the world’s most widely played video games, has secured $22.5m in funding led by Meritech Capital Partners.
Meritech was joined in the financing round by Larry Bowman and John McCaw.
The funding ... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | PopCap Games Raises $22.5M in First Outside Funding Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based PopCap Games dropped a bit of a bombshell this morning. The casual games developer and publisher announced it has secured $22.5 million—the first outside funding... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Australia won't be playing Left 4 Dead 2 | Sorry Australia, apparently you can’t handle the zombie killing action and gore of Left 4 Dead 2. Nope, the government has decided that the graphic violence and gore, is just a little too much for the delicate sensibilities of the people of... |
| May 13, 2009 | Seattle Firms iLike, PopCap, Evri, and Zumobi Partner with Apple—an iPhone Update | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s hard to keep up with the flood of new iPhone applications these days, but a few Seattle-based companies warrant a mention here for their recent news. Especially coming on... |
| Apr 2, 2009 | Peggle is Pwning My Wife | My wife, Emily, likes casual games. When I say “casual” I mean really casual; she can play the minigames in the children’s online destination Webkinz for hours. I don’t have anything against casual games, even though they tend not to appeal... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | Bejeweled Twist a gameplay gem for PopCap | After nearly four years, you'd think the PopCap crew would feel good about kicking up their heels at the release of Bejeweled Twist, the third version of their iconic casual game.
But CEO Dave Roberts seemed a bit abashed Monday night, even... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | Bejeweled, a video game chasing Solitaire, hits 25 million copies sold | It’s not often that video games hit the milestone of 25 million. A handful of titles have gotten there, such as Pokemon, The Sims, Windows Solitaire, and Tetris. Bejeweled is joining those ranks today, according to its developer, PopCap Gam... |
| May 28, 2008 | UK businesses lose £4 billion a year due to ‘office break’ ban | A new report published today reveals that the current trend towards banning personal internet use in the workplace could be costing British businesses up to £4 billion every year[1] due to a resulting decline in staff productivity. The repo... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Programmer proposes by hacking 'Bejeweled' | Congratulations to Bernie Peng and his soon-to-be-wife Tammy Li! The happy couple just got engaged via a hacked version of “Bejeweled” that Bernie programmed to reveal his proposal once Tammy hit a certain score.
Seattle-based PopCap, maker... |
| Oct 29, 2007 | Casual gaming worth $2.25 billion, and growing fast | While the enthusiast gaming market is somewhat stagnant, the casual gaming market is on a spurt, growing 20 percent each year. Casual games are smaller and cheaper to develop than blockbusters like Halo, but also less lucrative. However, wh... |
| Aug 1, 2007 | Games, Games, Games, one for your iPod and one for your iPhone | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Some of you, and we know who you are, don't have a portable gaming device. While I may or may not have a Nintendo DS and an eve... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Glu Mobile Sticks with PopCap Games | Mobile game publisher Glu Mobile is sticking with PopCap Games, the two companies announced today. Under the this new multi-year partnership Glu will continue to publish three of PopCap’s most popular titles including Zuma, AstroPop and Ins... |
| Jun 14, 2007 | HeyCosmo mixes video conferencing, Texas Hold ‘Em | Social networking, chat, content sharing, and casual games — we’ve seen them all.
But Mountain View, Calif.’s HeyCosmo combines these elements, throws in live webcam streaming and ends up with something new.
The site makes it easy for group... |
| Troquei meu Android por um iPhone | Depois de um ano e meio de uso, meu velho Galaxy Nexus estava pedindo para ser aposentado. O hardware se tornou obsoleto, a lentidão nos aplicativos mais novos estava incomodando e o Google deu a última facada no aparelho ao anunciar que nã... |
