Edge writes: "The Experience Music Project, lurking under the spindly shadow of Seattle's Space Needle, is a Frank Gehry building: shiny, eye-catching and underwhelming. Like many of the architect's works, there's the ever-present hint of a troubled child making a poorly judged bid for attention in its mixture of the colourful and the noisy, the flimsy and the insubstantial.
It's also extremely popular as a venue for corporate events, which is why on a night in late October, PopCap, the company behind unassuming mega-hits like Chuzzle and Peggle, took over the EMP for the launch of Bejeweled Twist, the latest instalment in its backbone franchise. To date, sales of Bejeweled games have already topped 25 million units; in its own quiet way, Twist is as important to the industry as a new Halo release."
Beyond The D-Pad states "PopCap Games was started in the year 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka in Seattle Washington. The developers first title was a simple gem-swapping game named Bejeweled. Now 10 years later Bejeweled is still adding to its already amazing 50 million units sold, not to mention during this time PopCap still managed to produce other quality games like Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies and Zuma just to name a few. Over the years PopCap has cemented its name as a top tier developer as well as a fan favorite.
I recently had the unique opportunity to interview VP of Communications at PopCap Garth Chouteau. In this interview he reflects on the past 10 years as well as gives us a glimpse of what the next 10 years may hold for PopCap and the industry as a whole."
You may or may not know that 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the Bejeweled game series! Bejeweled is THE original "match-3" game and the most mimicked game of all time with over 200 knock-off versions – it is the only video game in history to be available on PCs, mobile phones, video game consoles, iPods, social networks, airplane seatbacks and scratch-off lottery tickets! Bejeweled has now sold more than 50 million units, making it one of the top ten best-selling video games of all time - and PopCap continues to sell a copy of Bejeweled every 4.3 seconds.
NXT Gamer are also offering the chance to win a years supply of PopCap games!
I'm not going to deny Bejeweled success, but Tetris will forever be king. This is coming from someone who prefers Lumines.
Sells a copy every 4.3 seconds? that's insane. Never really played it myself.
The Thanklessgrind.com crew marvel over the news that PopCap Games sell a copy of Bejewelled every 4.3 seconds and the franchise is now in the top ten best selling games of all time. What has been the root of the game's success over the last decade and what can the puzzler expect to achieve by 2020?
