Tag: Popcap
Plants vs. Zombies headed to the iPhone
PopCap's hit Plants vs. Zombies PC game is headed to the iPhone. According to PopCap, the game " challenges you to defend your house from encroaching zombies striving to reach your front door to eat your brains. Choose from an…
PopCap Games come to mobile phone, economists downgrade productivity
PopCap Games, the company behind addictive flash games like Bejewelled and Zuma has launched a mobile site to sell games for download directly to mobile phones. Already responsible for many lost hours I’ve spent playing Bejewelled on MSN Messenger, the company is hoping that people will pay a fiver a time to get the games on their phones too…
Casual gaming reduces stress, sez science
Next time you get caught out playing Peggle at work, you can legitimately tell your boss that you’re reducing the high level of stress, fatigue, and anger caused by him being such as slave driver.
New research from East Carolina University suggests that casual games (particularly those by PopCap games, because they commissioned the study) can be therapeutic, lowering stress levels, increasing vigour, and reducing fatigue, confusion, anger, and psychological tension…
Apple hails "incredible reaction" to iPhone SDK
Apple has announced that over 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the Software Development Kit since it was announced last week.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said that the reaction of developers to the SDK “has been incredible”, adding that over one million people watched the launch video at Apple’s web site…
Mobile game of the week: Chuzzle Mobile
Want something to do on the train home tonight? How about spending 20 minutes playing a game that involves sliding furry balls around? No, not the one that got you arrested last year, a different one. Chuzzle Mobile.
