PopCap’s new game studio, 4th & Battery, is gearing up for the release of its second game. And it’s an oldie, but a goodie. PopCap is re-releasing Candy Train, a game that the company first introduced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Vechey, one of the founding members of Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies developer PopCap, has left the studio and its parent ...

Game developer and distributor PopCap has a new creative "sandbox"—a development studio called 4th & Battery that aims to deliver "smaller, simpler and sometimes edgier games" to market faster than is ...

PopCap Games has spun off a new studio from its development efforts that's aimed at creating simple, fast-to-market casual games. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has ...

Dave Roberts, chief executive of Electronic Arts’ PopCap Games division, is retiring from the game studio that he joined almost nine years ago. Cofounder John Vechey will take over the job of running ...

PopCap is the Pixar of the casual games world. It’s games are universally praised by critics and players of all ages and it has a rigorous internal process for coming up with ideas and polishing them ...

PopCap, the Seattle video-game studio behind “Bejeweled” and “Plants vs. Zombies,” is laying off about a quarter of its staff in the hope that a “smaller, leaner” studio will be able to find success ...

PopCap Games formed 4th & Battery, a new experimental label where PopCap's designers and developers have free reign to create smaller, simpler, and sometimes edgier games. We recently caught up with ...

Over the past ten years, it’s become increasingly common for both the gaming press and the industry to describe video games in terms of “casual” and “core” audiences. If you want to convince a ...