Edge: Don’t say that PopCap is one of the world’s leading developers of casual games. For a start, the company hates the C-word. And besides, its massive success at producing games that apparently effortlessly appeal to both broad audiences and committed gamers has made it one of the highest-selling developers in gaming history. Not bad for a company that, ten years ago, was testing its games on one of its three founders’ mothers.
We meet John Vechey, one of those founders and now executive producer of online games, to talk about where PopCap came from, where it’s heading, and just what it takes to make a game capable of selling 50 million copies.
PowerUp! - "George Fan, a former employee of PopCap and EA, wrote on Twitter this week seemingly confirming a widely believed rumour. The rumour began when another developer, Edmund McMillen (creator of Super Meat Boy), spoke of Fan’s firing on the Roundtable Live! podcast."
I hope EA gets worst company in America again. They deserve it above any other company bar none.
From a gamer standpoint I want to agree, but generally, i don't think they're as bad companies like wells fargo or bank of america that literally leave people homeless, when they (the banks) make mistakes and people can't access their money.
Not just a developer the CREATOR of the God damn series
It's mad. Make something special, get it to where it is and BOOM fired "Now get the f*** out of my office"
I don't think he would have allowed Garden Warfare to happen in my opinion
Its a shame too, because the original Plants vs Zombies was so good. I didn't even play the 2nd one because it was just a locked game with progression that heavily relied on paying real money.
Ahh so this is what happens when a developer doesn't want to ruin their creation with freemium/premium bs . .they end up jobless... .
what a beautiful industry we support . . .the customers get treated like mindless idiots and the developers get treated like slaves . . .and the publishers are our overlords I suppose.
PopCap hopes that by laying off about 45 employees and becoming a “smaller, leaner” studio but this is a blow to the studio.
'This time a year ago, PopCap’s head count was 165. Based on that figure, the layoffs would be about 27 percent of its staff.
When the studio was acquired by EA for as much as $1.3 billion in 2011, PopCap employed about 500 people.'.
Pure PlayStation: The annual Montreal International Game Summit is just around the corner and we now know that Sony’s former executive, Adam Boyes, will be opening the two-day event with his keynote speech ‘Gaming’s Gold Rush’.
