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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, [...]
Continue reading...PopCap Apologizes for Bejeweled Blitz Glitches with 50,000 Free Coins
Monday, February 8, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Bejeweled Blitz Apologizes for Downtime with 50% Off Bejeweled 2
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Bejeweled Blitz Beta Adds Boosts, Coins
Thursday, January 21, 2010
In another bit of news from Games.com that I’m simultaneously thrilled and upset about, a few new features have been added to Bejeweled Blitz, the Facebook game which will devour hours of your life in 60-second bites. In a new beta version of the game, players can now collect coins during play from certain yellow [...]
Continue reading...Games.com Names 2009’s Top 5 Facebook Games
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Bejeweled Blitz Wins IGN’s Best Facebook Game of 2009
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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, [...]
Continue reading...Are Bejeweled Blitz High Score Notifications High Enough?
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...5 Social Games You Oughtta Try This Weekend
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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 Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...Bejeweled Blitz Goes Mobile with Facebook Connect
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Taunts of Bejeweled Blitz
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sometimes my Bejewelled Blitz biorhythms just aren’t going to be there. I can’t bring my A game every game. Do I not want it badly enough? Bejewelled Blitz sure thinks so. A holder of many a 250k+ medal but, human, all too human. Whoops! This is a delicate nudge to give the causal [...]
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