Popcap Games Website

[Kathrine Selvage]

Originallyfounded under the name "Sexy Action Cool", their first title was a strip poker game that served as a revenue stream for future titles.[4] PopCap has developed several games for computers, consoles and mobile devices, with their most popular games being Bejeweled, Peggle, Zuma and Plants vs. Zombies games. PopCap was acquired and became a subsidiary of Electronic Arts on July 12, 2011.[5]

PopCap Games was founded by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka in 2000. They originally incorporated as "Sexy Action Cool", a phrase taken from a poster of Desperado.[4] Their first title was a strip poker game called "Foxy Poker" and was supposed to serve as a revenue stream for their future titles.[4]

Their first game as PopCap was Bejeweled, a gem-swapping game, which was supported on all major platforms and awarded by Computer Gaming World Hall Of Fame in 2002. The company expanded in 2005 with the acquisition of Sprout Games, a Seattle-based casual games developer company like PopCap Games, founded by James Gwertzman. Sprout Games is the creator of the game Feeding Frenzy. The Sprout team helped PopCap to make a sequel to the game, Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown, with Gwertzman becoming the Director of Business Development at PopCap. In early 2006, PopCap International was opened, based in Dublin, Ireland, working on product localization, mobile games development, marketing, sales and business development.

PopCap began another round of expansion in July 2007 by buying other casual game developers including the creators of an online consumer portal, SpinTop Games. One week prior, the company acquired the Chicago-based development house Retro64, founded by Mike Boeh, which is best known for their retro-arcade action and puzzle titles. After these acquisitions, the PopCap logo was rebranded, dropping the "Games" portion. PopCap's premium games list on their website are mixed with other games from other developers/distributors. PopCap hosted several games on PopCap.com and other websites, online and premium, until 2014, when they stopped offering games from their site.

On April 5, 2011, PopCap announced the creation of a new subsidiary, 4th and Battery, started in order to create "edgier" games.[6] Their first creation was the game Unpleasant Horse. On July 12, 2011, Electronic Arts announced it was acquiring PopCap for $650 million with an additional $100 million stock option.[7]

On August 21, 2012, PopCap laid off 50 employees in North America in a move to address a shift to mobile and free-to-play games and evaluated ceasing operations of its Dublin studio.[5] The Dublin studio was closed on September 24, 2012.[8]

Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense and strategy video game developed and originally published by PopCap Games for Windows and OS X in May 2009, and ported to consoles, handhelds, mobile devices and remastered versions for personal computers.

I bought a PopCap game called "Typer Shark" 9 years ago, I even bought the backup CD to go with it. I haven't played it in a long time and recently downloaded it on my computer but when I try to enter the registration code it won't let me, and I am entering it EXACTLY as it is on my email receipt which I kept

It claims "An error occurred while connecting to the PopCap web site for registration." So I try to go to the PopCap game website and the closest I can find is this site. How do I register this game and play it for longer than 60 min. as that is the trial length of the unregistered version of this game?

If that code is not working with those steps or you're running into trouble, try reaching out to support using different options. For example, starting a case here and selecting the options for Origin PC Codes and promotions Invalid code would fit your situation and get you in touch with support to check into this further.

I bought the game before popcap was bought by EA sports so I don't have any EA sports promo code, just a code from popcap games. Also when I try reaching out to support directly they ask me about what game I'm talking about but no results come up when I type it in.

I bought a PopCap game called "Plants vs Zombies" back in 2013, before they were bought out by EA, I even bought the backup CD to go with it. I haven't played it in a long time and recently downloaded it on my computer but when I try to enter the registration code it won't let me, and I am entering it EXACTLY as it is on my email receipt which I kept. It claims "An error occurred while connecting to the PopCap web site for registration." So I try to go to the PopCap game website and the closest I can find is this site. It looks like I purchased this game directly from PopCap and not from EA so there is no record of an order on my EA account. I have no product code because it looks like Popcap used order numbers for access instead of product codes. I chatted with an EA associate on this site and they told me that if the order doesn't show up in my account or I don't have the game code then they can't help me. I bought this game before popcap was bought by EA so it looks like popcap did things differently. How do I register the game and play it for longer than 60 minutes as that is the trial length of the unregistered version of this game? There has to be a way that EA will honor the previous purchase from a game company that they now own. Any help would be appreciated.

@foofins For this one, you would have to first set up a case with PopCap through Help.ea.com. They would have to see if the code if any is still able to be pulled up. Due to the age of the game though this may no longer be possible in the system. If support informed you that they cannot that is because there isn't a way for them to track or modify those orders from that long ago.

Unless there is an email or something you can find with a code to look up, support would no longer be able to assist with these. As you had stated there is no code and this was a pre-Origin client and all, unfortunately, there is not a way to look up those orders or grant that game to a player account.

There's been a murder. And no one seems to have noticed. One of my favourite ever games, released during the peak of PopCap's glory days, is simply gone. Not just no longer on sale, but seemingly erased from history, from the current timeline. Bookworm Adventures (and it's sequel), the adorable word-spelling combat game, has been Shazammed right out of existence.

Back in the very early days of RPS, a little game called Peggle was released. All 18MB of it. A file size that became peculiarly important to the site for a number of years - for reasons implausible to explain it became the international unit for measuring demo sizes. We all loved Peggle, because we weren't mad. But there was one of us that preferred another PopCap game at the time, and that handsome chap was me. If I had to keep one, I'd have trodden on Peggle to save my Bookworm Adventures.

It's hard to believe just what an extraordinary hit factory PopCap was back in 2007. Even more so the breadth of their appeal, somehow ingeniously presenting themselves as both a "casual games" outlet releasing across all those super-mainstream sites like Big Fish, and a specialist company who were incredibly early to get their games onto Steam. Probably most broadly famous for Bejeweled, they were putting out a mix of so many game types, from hidden object to arcade to pachinko, managing to blur the fiercely guarded line between "casual" and "hardcore". So much so that there was even a crossover special edition of Peggle in Valve's Orange Box. Yeah, bet you forgot that one! And while perhaps their peak crossover moment came with Plants Vs Zombies, moments before they were bought by EA, for me my favourite will always be that wormy word game.

There was a game before it, Bookworm, a more traditional puzzler, that honestly isn't very good. But Bookworm Adventures transformed it into something so damned weird that it could only be magic. You play as Lex, a sesquipedalian worm, who is sent inside a library book to attempt to rescue Greek mythological heroine Cassandra. Yeah. That. To do this, you must of course spell out the longest words you can from a 4x4 grid of lettered tiles, the formed words used as a weapon against the story-themed enemies, beating the crap out of them.

As you progress, the tiles become cracked, poisoned, concrete, etc, and different letters are worth more when used in words. And yes, if this is sounding incredibly familiar despite never having played BWA back in 2007, it is also the exact same setup as 2014's Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey.

As it happens, it was playing Letter Quest on my Switch with the boy that reminded me how fun it might be to dig out Bookworm Adventures for this column. I could replay a well-loved game, and bring up the old RPS rivalry between it and Peggle, and celebrate how funny it was, and how brilliantly it noticed thematic words. It'd be a nostalgic, smile-inducing article about something good and pure. So I typed the name into Steam to get to its store page, and... nothing came up. Which was odd, since it was on Steam from the 2nd January 2007, and I'd always played it there since. Oh for flip's sake, I thought to myself, bloody EA. It'll be stuck on Origin for no good reason, won't it?

So I blew the thick layer of dust off of Origin, loaded it up, waited for it to break a few times, loaded it again, and searched for it there. And nothing came up. Huh. I then went to what I'll loosely call "PopCap"'s website, to see if maybe it was at least on mobile? Probably reprogrammed to have you have to pay microtransactions per word spelt or something. But the word "Bookworm" doesn't appear on the mutilated corpse of PopCap's website anywhere. It's erased from their history. It's erased from everywhere.

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