When it comes to designing incredibly addictive, infinitely playable casual games, no company can match the track record of the magicians at Popcap Games. Zuma was marvelous. Even more so, Peggle. But with the release of Plants vs. Zombies, Popcap has truly outdone itself by crafting what is one of the most fun, engaging, and dare I say flawless games of this generation. Hyperbole this is not.
I’m of fairly certain mind that no video game developer wants their product associated with drugs (well, at least publicly), but Popcap’s Bejeweled series, in its many incarnations, has been my equivalent of digital crack. The most recent addiction has been Bejeweled Blitz which has devoured the vast majority of may Facebook time. Forget friends, [...]
Irresistible. There isn’t much other way to describe Popcap Games’ Plants vs. Zombies, an addictive and infinitely charming take on the tower defense genre. Instead of planes, tanks, mechs, or other miscellaneous items, the title demands that you defend a suburban home from a zombie invasion using the flora that you plant in your lawn. [...]
When one thinks of the city that I call home, typically the Yankees, Broadway, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Coney Island, and a dozen other landmarks and locales comes to mind, but the Big Apple also throws one heck of a Halloween party; absolutely killer if I were to draw from the well of [...]
Hidden object games is a genre that, frankly, sounds boring and perhaps a hair tedious until you give one a go. My first entry into the genre was Dream Day Wedding, a game that totally tanked a weekend as I became obsessed with finding all of the items cleverly blended into the beautiful backgrounds. It [...]
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Popcap merges a brain challenging puzzler with the most basic of fighting game elements in Bookworm Adventures Volume 2, the sequel to 2006’s Bookworm Adventures. Like its predecessor, Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 places our plucky protagonist, Lex, into a gauntlet of storybook-inspired challenges which require deft word-forming ability in order to defeat enemies. It may [...]
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Bits and Bytes is a weekly round up of some of the more interesting gaming news items that happened to slip through the cracks during our normal posting schedule. They’re presented here in easily-digestible bite-size chunks. Bookworms and Mysteries This week, Popcap (the geniuses behind Plants vs. Zombies) launched two new titles for your gaming pleasure: [...]
Popcap, the fine craftspeople behind the delightful Plants Vs. Zombies, has begun taking pre-orders for Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 the sequel to one of my favorite word puzzlers. It’ll be available for the PC platform on July 30th for $20, but true fans that pre-order by July 28th will be rewarded for their dedication with [...]
