Our Mission
PopCap makes life fun! We make creative, timeless, irresistible games that everyone loves to play, anywhere, with anyone.
For over 10 years we’ve been a worldwide leader in casual gaming — creating award-winning franchises like Bejeweled®, Zuma®, Peggle® and Plants vs. Zombies™.
Years in the making, our games are sprinkled with a whirlwind of smile-inducing awesomeness and polished to a timeless sheen that keeps the world coming back for more. And people do — time and again, everyone’s playin’ PopCap games!
Company History
It all started in 2000, when PopCap’s founders John Vechey, Jason Kapalka and Brian Fiete decided to combine their experience from other game companies with their passion for simple, fun games. Just as the Internet bubble burst, the trio was left holding its first great hit with no real way to profit from it.
So they came up with a radical idea — “try it before you buy it” — and in October 2001, they posted their first downloadable game, Bejeweled Deluxe. Soon orders began rolling in. By the hundreds… every hour… day after day… from all over the world.
The rest is… well, the #1 puzzle series of the 21st century and the world’s greatest gain in the land of relaxing fun!
The success of Bejeweled empowered PopCap to experiment and we eventually created a bevy of entertaining games, like Bookworm®, Zuma and Peggle. Adaptations soon followed — for Xbox, PlayStation3, Nintendo DS, mobile phones, the iPad, and Facebook — and millions more people discovered PopCap® games. And they haven’t stopped playing since!
These days we have over 400 whip-smart, talented and happy employees in offices all over the world — from Seattle, San Francisco and Vancouver, B.C. to Dublin, Shanghai and Tokyo. And we’re as busy as ever dreamin’ up new ways to make life fun!
PopCap by the Numbers
Year founded: 2000
Number of employees: Over 400
Number of PopCap Games: 56
Number of awards our games have won: More than 100... we’ve lost count!
Plants vs. Zombies movie deal offers received: 41
Frequency of Bejeweled sales: 1 every 4.3 seconds
Chuzzles that Noni, the office dog, eats in a day: 4.5 (average)
Number of people who have played at least one PopCap game: Over 1 billion!
Number of employees: Over 400
Number of PopCap Games: 56
Number of awards our games have won: More than 100... we’ve lost count!
Plants vs. Zombies movie deal offers received: 41
Frequency of Bejeweled sales: 1 every 4.3 seconds
Chuzzles that Noni, the office dog, eats in a day: 4.5 (average)
Number of people who have played at least one PopCap game: Over 1 billion!
Love their games, they are ones I can actually get into....
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