PopCap's strides into adding social elements to its casual games through Facebook is well underway with the launch of a version of Zuma that leverages the popular social networking platform's Connect technology.
In beta as of today, Zuma Web Connect lets players of the casual game on PopCap's website publish leadership stats, medals and other play statistics back to Facebook.
PopCap's newest foray into using the existing, prolific Facebook platform to add social features to its games follows a six-month beta for Bejeweled Blitz, a one-minute version of the popular match-three title on Facebook. Bejeweled Blitz accumulated 5 million monthly users during the beta phase, says PopCap.
“I love a good old puzzle game and Zuma is one that I used to play all the time and now you can, too, thanks to EA Play and Game Pass.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
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With today’s Friday Funday blog post of the day, PopCap Games listed some of their more popular games and the titles that they were almost given. It has been said before that Bejeweled was originally named “Diamond Mine”, but there are a few more examples worth mentioning.
In other news, Plants vs Zombies was almost sued to oblivion.
It's probably best they went with what they did.
That would have been funny.
Did you know that the original name for Pac-man was Puck-man? Not because he looks like a puck, but because paku-paku means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they were afraid of people changing the name, like scratching out the middle part of the P.-the homeboy Scott Pilgrim
I would have called it super zombie ultra combo maximum edition, PLANeTary survival
