PopCap was so important there was a Peggle game in the Orange Box. Valve's massive rectangular mic drop may be remembered for Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two, but it also ...

Popcap hasn’t been shy about promising an influx of free content packs (again, think ME3 ‘s Galaxy at War). Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a good time, make no mistake.

PopCap was already starting — they had their casual fanbase, but Peggle had also come out and gotten more people in the mainstream game industry to take notice. All those factors combined.

PopCap hopes that by laying off about 45 employees and becoming a “smaller, leaner” studio, it will be able to find success in the ultracompetitive world of mobile games.

The PopCap Games co-founder, now leading a startup called Pluto VR, immediately takes me into a room and hands me an HTC Vive virtual reality headset. He leaves, and a few minutes later, three ...

PopCap on Tuesday released “Bejeweled Stars” for Google and Apple mobile devices, the first addition to its flagship matching-game franchise in six years.

After finding a wealth of success in the mobile games industry, PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey is turning his attention to the red-hot augmented and virtual reality market. The 37-year-old ...

“Physical location is a giant limiter,” he explained. “You and I can’t easily get together to play video games, because you’re in Ohio and I’m in Seattle.

In that case, PopCap simply focused on great content, games like Bejeweled or Plants vs. Zombies. That’s something that Vechey hopes to emulate at Pluto VR.