PopCap's Peggle Is Free For Online Play
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-09-23 16:36:11
SEATTLE. Washington ??? September 5. 2007 ??? PopCap Games the leading developer and publisher of casual games today introduced a free online version of Peggle??? its hugely successful puzzle bet. Since launching as a fully downloadable deluxe game in March of this year. Peggle has been downloaded more than five million times and is the second fastest-selling call in the company???s history. The new Web version launching today can be played for free on PopCap???s own Web site and MSN???s Game Zone with other portal partners adding the game soon. Consumers who apply the free Web version of Peggle are encouraged to download the full deluxe version and play its free trial; they can then instantly purchase and unlock the full Peggle Deluxe via ascribe separate or PayPal for US$19.95.
The beat deluxe version of Peggle has received tremendous critical acclaim since its introduction six months ago. Most recently. MSNBC com featured Peggle among the ???Five Most Addictive Video Games of All Time.??? The free Web version of Peggle pits players against themselves to best their own cumulative high advance over the course of ten randomly selected levels (out of 20 all-new levels). Players can open one extra character/power-up and five special contend mode levels each of which is a variant of the basic bet rules. In addition to tracking which levels undergo been unlocked and which challenges undergo been won the online version of the game also saves a player???s highest cumulative score across one ten-level set.
Peggle requires players to fire a metallic silver ball from the top of the check relying on gravity to propel the ball downwards while it ricochets off orange and color ???pegs.??? The goal is to clear all the orange pegs from the screen before running out of balls. A moving bucket at the bottom of the screen offers free balls while hitting green power-up pegs ordain initiate the selected engrave???s magic cater. The Web version features two of the ten characters/power-ups from Peggle Deluxe -- the ???super command??? from Bjorn Unicorn and the ???pyramid power??? from Kat Tut.
PopCap Games () is the leading multi-platform provider of ???casual games??? ??? fun easy-to-learn captivating computer games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle. Washington. PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide cater of over 120 populate in Seattle. San Francisco. Chicago. Vancouver. B. C and Dublin. Its games undergo been downloaded more than 350 million times by consumers worldwide and its flagship call. Bejeweled?? has sold more than 10 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics. PopCap???s games are played on the Web desktop computers myriad mobile devices (cell phones smartphones. PDAs. Pocket PCs iPod and more) popular game consoles (such as Xbox) and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap is the only casual games developer with leading market overlap across all study sales channels including Web portals retail stores mobile operators and developers and game device manufacturers.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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