Posts Tagged ‘PopCap Games’

EA Acquires PopCap Games

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has announced the acquisitioin of PopCap Games, one of the leading casual and mobile gaming studios. With the acquisition, EA extends it’s mobile/casual portfolio.

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PopCap Games Acquires ZipZapPlay

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

UK based studio PopCap games has acquired San Francisco based social games studio ZipZapPlay. With this acquisition, PopCap extends its Facebook portfolio as well as settles itself in Silicon Valley.

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MWC International Mobile Gaming Award Winners Announced

February 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

The IMGA has just announced the winners of the International Mobile Game Awards. The grand prix went to long time developer FDG Entertainment and many other award have been won by long-time mobile developers as well.

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EA to Publish Popcap’s Zuma’s Revenge

August 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

EA Mobile has signed a new publishing deal with Popcap Games for their latest mobile game in the Zuma range called Zuma’s Revenge.

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PopCap Hires New CTO

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

PopCap Games has hired Frits Habermann as their new Chief Technology Officer. Following his career at Adobe, he will now be responsible for the technology strategy and vision of PopCap Games.

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PopCap’s $1 Million Game Launch

February 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Massive financial success is something that can still happen on Apple’s App Store. Within nine days after the launch, PopCap generated 300.000 downloads of their $2,99 Plants vs. Zombies game.

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PopCap Secured $22.5 Million Funding

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

PopCap has just confirmed it's first round of funding and has successfully raised $ 22,5 million in it. The funding round was lead by Meritech Capital Partners.

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60% of AT&T Consumers Play Games

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to a study of Information Solutions Group (commissioned by PopCap), nearly 60% of AT&T’s consumers play mobile games.

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PopCap Games Releases Peggle

October 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | No Comments »

Following several other platform releases by PopCap, the developer has now finally released Peggle as a mobile game.

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EA Extends Bejeweled License

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

The problem with licensing deals is… sometimes they run out. As so,
EA Mobile and PopCap Games have chosen to extend the contract due to
the huge success of the title.