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March Madness Has Hit the Contest Area of Bejeweled Blitz!

Considering how addictive Bejeweled Blitz is on its own, I doubt that there are many people who play the game specifically because of the contest that’s held every week, giving away PopCap games or a laptop, among other items. However, this Month, PopCap is set to make the contest a bit more interesting – perhaps to [...]

Social, Casual or Both? PopCap Sells Cows, Gives Away Free Milk

In terms of wide-sweeping brand recognition, Popcap is to casual gaming what Nintendo is to gaming in general.  Your Grandma knows about Nintendo, but your Mom might know a PopCap game or two.  Founded a decade ago, the company does a spectacular job of keeping their games in the public eye and maintaining a friendly, [...]

Bejeweled Turns 10, Continues to Be Awesome

After being on the market in one form or another for the past ten years, PopCap is celebrating the launch of Bejeweled by releasing a staggering sales figure for a casual game – over 50 million units sold, across countless platforms and franchise releases.
PopCap looks to keep Bejeweled alive and well in the hearts of [...]

PopCap Apologizes for Bejeweled Blitz Glitches with 50,000 Free Coins

If you’re an avid player of Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook, you might have noticed a few… odd happenings in the game after it was updated on January 26. Leaderboards were glitched, causing players to randomly appear and disappear from the lineup, while some players reported difficulty loading the game.
According to Games.com, PopCap acknowledged the issue [...]

Bejeweled Blitz Apologizes for Downtime with 50% Off Bejeweled 2

The new features we previewed last week for Bejeweled Blitz are scheduled to go live today! Only… they’re not quite ready yet. Popcap’s insanely addictive Facebook game is temporarily down while the new features are being added to the regular game, and Popcap is doubtlessly seeing a lot of us eagerly mashing the “refresh” button [...]

Games.com Names 2009’s Top 5 Facebook Games

The Facebook game bloggers at Games.com have given their picks for the year’s 5 most addictive titles on the social network. By now, I’m sure you’ve deduced our ultimate plan: Once we have enough end-of-the-year lists, we’re going to compile our own Top “Lists of 2009″ of 2010 List. Ingenious!
Coming in as Games.com’s top five [...]

Bejeweled Blitz Wins IGN’s Best Facebook Game of 2009

Bejeweled Blitz, the maddeningly fast-paced Facebook version of PopCap’s quintessential match-three game, has been named “Best Facebook Game” in IGN’s Best of 2009 awards. Citing the game’s bite-sized time limit and the competition engendered by its weekly leaderboards, IGN’s praise for the game includes a perfectly eloquent three-word highlight: “Addictive as hell.”
One has to admit, [...]

Are Bejeweled Blitz High Score Notifications High Enough?

439,600
That’s my high score this week in Bejeweled Blitz, the speedy social match-3 game from PopCap. That’s a pretty hot high score, and so I published the Star Medal notification to alert my Facebook friends of this puzzle gaming success…

Herein lies my qualm: If players are regularly scoring upwards of 300,000 in the game, wouldn’t [...]

5 Social Games You Oughtta Try This Weekend

Between all the turkey leftovers and shopping this weekend, here’s a Frisky Mongoose social game selection worth perusing – 5 fun Facebook games you should play this weekend:
1. Bejeweled Blitz (by PopCap): http://apps.facebook.com/bejeweledblitz
Face the popular one-minute gem-matching challenge (match 3); also on iPhone

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Bejeweled Blitz Goes Mobile with Facebook Connect

Could it be? Until now you could only compete with friends in Bejewled Blitz while tethered to your computer and logged into Facebook, but PopCap’s announcement this week changes the game.

For a Bejeweled-Blitzing, iPhone-owning social gamer, PopCap has delivered in a BIG way, offering seamless Facebook Connect integration. Will scores increase? Will non-iPhone users be [...]