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Ready Up: PopCap HITS review

What’s better than getting a new game? How about getting four games on the one disc? Here we have some of the most addictive games all bundled together for the first time. Astropop, Feeding Frenzy, Bejeweled 2 and Peggle are all present on the disc, but also available to download individually from XBLA. It would be fair to say that Bejeweled 2 and Peggle are the better known games in this package, so I’ll leave them to last; but what of Feeding Frenzy and Astropop? Well I diligently played through them and these are my thoughts on them.

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Developer confirms he was fired by EA & PopCap and that he opposed freemium

PowerUp! - "George Fan, a former employee of PopCap and EA, wrote on Twitter this week seemingly confirming a widely believed rumour. The rumour began when another developer, Edmund McMillen (creator of Super Meat Boy), spoke of Fan’s firing on the Roundtable Live! podcast."

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Relientk772357d ago

I hope EA gets worst company in America again. They deserve it above any other company bar none.

Jaypi032356d ago

From a gamer standpoint I want to agree, but generally, i don't think they're as bad companies like wells fargo or bank of america that literally leave people homeless, when they (the banks) make mistakes and people can't access their money.

-Foxtrot2357d ago

Not just a developer the CREATOR of the God damn series

It's mad. Make something special, get it to where it is and BOOM fired "Now get the f*** out of my office"

I don't think he would have allowed Garden Warfare to happen in my opinion

CorndogBurglar2356d ago

Its a shame too, because the original Plants vs Zombies was so good. I didn't even play the 2nd one because it was just a locked game with progression that heavily relied on paying real money.

AizenSosuke2356d ago

EA will get burned by me and my Kyouka Suigetsu

kevinsheeks2355d ago

Ahh so this is what happens when a developer doesn't want to ruin their creation with freemium/premium bs . .they end up jobless... .

what a beautiful industry we support . . .the customers get treated like mindless idiots and the developers get treated like slaves . . .and the publishers are our overlords I suppose.

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Seattle game studio PopCap lays off a quarter of its staff

PopCap hopes that by laying off about 45 employees and becoming a “smaller, leaner” studio but this is a blow to the studio.

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Knushwood Butt2554d ago

'This time a year ago, PopCap’s head count was 165. Based on that figure, the layoffs would be about 27 percent of its staff.

When the studio was acquired by EA for as much as $1.3 billion in 2011, PopCap employed about 500 people.'.

Garethvk2553d ago

They also have not released a game in a while.

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MIGS 2016: Ex-Sony Exec to Talk “Golden Age of Gaming”;Naughty Dog, Rocksteady, and More on VR

Pure PlayStation: The annual Montreal International Game Summit is just around the corner and we now know that Sony’s former executive, Adam Boyes, will be opening the two-day event with his keynote speech ‘Gaming’s Gold Rush’.

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never4get2786d ago

Finally after "Greatness Awaits" the "Golden Age of Gaming" is here!