Peggle Lands on iPhone

Finally securing near-omnipresence for the casual gaming phenomenon, PopCap's Peggle has spread its influence to the iPhone App Store as of this morning. For a meager fee of just $4.99, iPhone and iPod Touch-equipped gamers can join the millions of office workers, DS and Xbox 360 owners, and World of Warcraft subscribers who spend countless hours shooting shiny balls at colored pegs when they should probably be doing something else. New to the iPhone and iPod Touch versions of the game are a redesigned UI -- properly making use of the handheld's touch screen -- as well as a zoom function and several new types of style shots. "Our new adaptation of Peggle for iPhone and iPod touch was truly a labor of love," gushed PopCap's director of mobile business development Andrew Stein. "We spent huge amounts of time specifically optimizing this version of one of our favorite games to one of the world's coolest devices, so that it ... (link)