Popcap Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Current game network developers comment on Apple's Game Center

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

Way back in February at Macworld, one of my questions to Eros Remini of OpenFeint was pretty blunt: "Why," I asked a representative from the biggest third-party social gaming network on the iPhone, "haven't we seen an official platform-wide network?" Remini didn't have a good answer for Apple, but ...

Apple played favorites with iPad access

by Mike Schramm (Apr 5th, 2010)

Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza has an insightful look at something that no one's really noticed yet: Apple definitely played favorites when it came to sharing the iPad. Here's the list of outlets and writers that got access to the iPad for an early review. You'll note that Boing Boing is on there, ...

Plants vs. Zombies breaks records on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2010)

PopCap has released some sales information on their latest iPhone game, Plants vs. Zombies, and it's a runaway hit: the game has sold over 300,000 copies in just the nine days it's been out on the App Store, which means the company has garnered over $1 million in sales already. Very impressive -- ...

Plants vs. Zombies hits the iPhone

by Mat Lu (Feb 17th, 2010)

Last week we noted the impending arrival PopCap's ridiculously addictive Plants vs. Zombies onto the iPhone / iPod touch, and now this marvelous time-waster has landed. A variant of the the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies requires you to defend your house from mobs of raging zombies by ...

Macworld 2010: TUAW goes to the mothership

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2010)

No Macworld is complete without at least one pilgrimage to the mothership in Cupertino, and so yesterday, before the meetings and interviews we're planning today, David Winograd, Dave Caolo, and myself made the trip to the Apple Campus. In the gallery below, you can see what we saw, from the boxed ...

Plants vs. Zombies coming to iPhone on February 15th

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2010)

Yes, PopCap is at it again -- this time, their crazy addictive (just like all of their games) take on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies, is headed off to the iPhone. They just tweeted confirmation a little while ago, and released this trailer showing all of the flower vs. undead action ...

TUAW Review: Plants vs. Zombies

by Dave Caolo (Aug 6th, 2009)

Earlier this week I downloaded Plants vs. Zombies by PopCap Games for the Mac. It's a simple tower defense game that pits lumbering zombies against great varieties of aggressive plants. Your job is to fill your yard with enough plants to keep the zombies from reaching your house. The first few ...

Peggle now available for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (May 12th, 2009)

We told you everything you needed to know back when it was announced. When it got delayed, we were bummed, but only a little, because we knew we'd soon have it in our hands. And now, it's finally here. 55 levels and 40 challenges of some of the most addictive gameplay there has ever been. Controls ...

Peggle on iPhone delayed to May 12th

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2009)

Bad news for those of you who've been drooling to play Peggle on the iPhone. As you may have noticed, it didn't come out in March as we were originally told. The good news is that our friends at Joystiq have gotten a new date for the addictive PopCap game's release on the App Store, and it's ...

Yet more great apps coming for the iPhone

by Mat Lu (Mar 13th, 2008)

Yesterday we posted about the Apple press release announcing that the SDK had been downloaded more than 100,000 times in four days. It's also worth noting, however, that Apple basically confirmed that several well-known developers are officially supporting the iPhone and bringing some exciting ...

Peggle on your iPod

by Scott McNulty (Jan 14th, 2008)

It would seem that I am on a mission to completely derail any chance I have to properly prepare for Macworld. First I decide to perform a brain transplant on my MacBook Pro, and now I find myself playing Peggle like a mad man. We first covered Peggle last month, when a Mac native version was ...

Two new Mac games: Bomberman and Peggle

by Mike Schramm (Dec 19th, 2007)

Boy, it seems like everyone was waiting for me to write up my gift guide before releasing some interesting Mac games this year. First Horde of Orcs comes out, then Sonic of all things appears on the iPod, and now here's two more fun gaming experiences appearing on the Mac. First, our sister gaming ...

Five things Apple can do to bring gamers back

by Mike Schramm (Jun 20th, 2007)

Apple is releasing games for the iPod. EA and id show up at the WWDC keynote. And the rumors say Nintendo may team with Apple for the iPhone. All signs point to an Apple that seriously wants to reenter the gaming market, an arena that has been dominated by PCs and consoles for quite some time. But ...