Peggle Going Mobile

Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Action, Industry News, Mobile Phones |

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PopCap Games has announced Peggle Mobile, which will be available later this month for mobile phones in North America, the United Kingdom and parts of Europe. PopCap is not going to stop at Peggle, they plan to release at least 6 more mobile titles that are currently under development. No word yet, which six titles are coming. Peggle

“PopCap continues its strong support of the mobile games market with a steady stream of internally developed handheld titles that give players great gameplay value anywhere, anytime,” noted Andrew Stein, director of mobile business development at PopCap. “Peggle is among a growing list of AAA mobile titles that PopCap is aggressively bringing to market for all sorts of mobile devices from cell phones, smartphones and PDAs to PocketPCs, iPods, iPhones, and more.”

In case you haven’t played or seen Peggle, players have to shoot a silver ball down onto pegs with the intent to clear all of the orange pegs off the board. There are all kinds of obstacles, such as moving pegs, that attempt to thwart your attempts to clear the pegs, but there are power ups, like crab flippers that help players achieve the goal.

Peggle is an extremely fun game and should make a good port to a mobile phone. The game provides hours of entertainment in short little bursts that are good for cell phone games. Many gamers don’t have long to play when they start up a game for the cell phone.

Press Release Follows:

SEATTLE, Washington – September 5, 2008 — PopCap Games®, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the forthcoming launch of Peggle® Mobile, which will be made available for a wide array of handsets from all major wireless carriers in North America, the United Kingdom and parts of Europe beginning in later this month.

PopCap currently has nearly a half-dozen yet-to-be-announced mobile titles under development, and a host of acclaimed mobile and handheld games already available. Now, with Peggle Mobile, PopCap will be delivering the same level of unique and enthralling game action to an even wider base of gamers on-the-go.

Since its first introduction in March 2007, Peggle has been downloaded more than 20 million times on the Web, and garnered more than a dozen awards from leading industry associations and trade journals.

Peggle combines elements of pinball, pool and pachinko to create a completely different kind of game experience. The game challenges players to use skill, strategy and luck to clear progressively more difficult levels of orange pegs by firing a small silver ball from the top of the screen. Stationary and moving obstacles along with numerous power-ups and special effects combine with dynamically-assigned peg colors to make each level unique every time it’s played.

Peggle joins a host of tremendously successful titles, including Chuzzle™ Mobile and Bookworm™ Mobile, all of which were developed internally and published by PopCap in North America and Europe. Peggle for click-wheel iPod, introduced in late 2007, has also enjoyed critical and commercial success, and is the highest-rated game for iPod based on customer rankings in the iTunes storefront. Additionally, Bejeweled and Zuma™, two of PopCap’s most popular games, continue their positions among the best-selling mobile games of all-time, with Bejeweled still ranked as the overall #2 game in N. America through Q1 2008. Earlier this summer, PopCap also developed and launched the well received Bejeweled 2 for iPhone/iPod Touch.

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