casualgaming.biz - 1/26/2009
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After last week s feature looked at how leading casual titles have seen console releases take most of the credit for record breaking sales, we spoke with one of the men behind what might genuinely be the most popular game ever made. CasualGaming.biz: What is it about Bejeweled that has made the ...
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PopCap talks Nintendo, casual gaming - the full interview
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... it’s been useful in giving people a handle to get a hold of the concept of what we’re doing, the idea of games meant for the world outside of hardcore gamers, but it has become awfully broad now. It encompasses our web and PC games, basically everything Nintendo does, and some would say music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. By some standards practically half the video game market is ‘casual’ now, which is great, but it makes it hard to be specific in what you’re talking about. Full interview here This entry was posted on Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 1:41 pm and is ...
Bejeweled's Staggering Sales Numbers, PopCap Interview
Evil Avatar - News Items —
... ", comparing the staggering sales numbers (350 million copies downloaded, 25 million units sold at retailers) of PopCap's Bejeweled series to Nintendo's highly successful Wii Sports. As a follow up to that piece Casual Gaming has interviewed PopCap's creative director, Jason Kapalka. ...
PopCap Finds Nintendo Parallel
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today —
... casual gaming s market importance is underappreciated , stating that, though Wii Sports may have reached some 40 million units, PopCap s Bejeweled series has sold nearly ten times that amount. In a subsequent interview with the news site, PopCap s creative director Jason Kapalka stressed that Nintendo has not stolen the company s thunder: Nintendo has been following a parallel path to us for quite a while with the DS and Wii, he said, but I certainly don t feel they re getting credited unfairly or that they stole our thunder or ...
'Nintendo has Been Following a Parallel Path,' says PopCap
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Speaking to Casualgaming.biz , PopCap's creative director Jason Kapalka discussed the Bejeweled series. While he talked at length about the development of the latest game in the series, Bejeweled Twist , he also commented on the casual movement as a whole. "The term 'casual games' has probably begun to outlive its usefulness. We first started noticing it a couple years back... when we started, nobody called Bejeweled a 'casual game,' it was just a 'web game' or a 'downloadable game' or a 'puzzle game,'" noted Kapalka. "As a label, it's been useful in giving people a ...
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