PopCap Games said its U.S. retail revenues for PC games were up 85 percent in 2008. The Seattle-based maker of casual games managed to pull that off in a year when U.S. PC retail game market fell 14 ...

Dave Roberts, chief executive of Electronic Arts’ PopCap Games division, is retiring from the game studio that he joined almost nine years ago. Cofounder John Vechey will take over the job of running ...

SEATTLE, Washington - February 8, 2007 - PopCap Games®, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced that it has hired Greg Canessa to the newly-created position of Vice ...

The acquisition for the maker of "Bejeweled" and "Plants vs. Zombies" could be worth more than $1 billion if earn-out provisions pan out. By Paul Bond Games Split 2011 Electronic Arts said Tuesday it ...

Casual games are the stuff that fuel mobile gaming. If you play on a cell phone, a PDA, a Blackberry, an iPod or even on an airplane seatback, chances are your games of choice are the simple, yet ...

Just about everyone knows who PopCap is whether they know the name or not. That's because just about everyone who has ever played a game has played, at the very least, "Bejeweled." The gem-swapping ...

Casual games provider PopCap Games and Valve Software have jointly announced a new agreement that will see a significant number of casual games digitally distributed through Valve's Steam platform.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc <ERTS.O>, the video game publisher, is buying PopCap Games in a deal worth up to $1.3 billion as it tries to ramp up its social and casual games portfolio and ...

PopCap Games has tried developing a role-playing game in the past, the firm has revealed. Co-founder Jason Kapalka told DS that the Seattle-based developer had worked on making something with the ...

Rumor has it that local video-game maker PopCap Games (Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled 3) is about to bought for a whopping $1 billion. That’s billion. With a B.But until late last night, no one knew who ...

This probably was not the way that PopCap Games' experimental game studio 4th & Battery wanted to start off. Then again, maybe it's just the type of thing that could help establish the edgy new game ...

Overwhelmingly popular with non-traditional game audiences like women and seniors, PopCap’s line of mainstream-friendly mobile games, apps, downloads, console outings and PC software strikes a clear ...