Google+

Featured PopCap Stories

All PopCap articles on GamesRadar

  • Loading...

    PopCap closes Dublin offices, lays off 96 employees

    3 Comments
    • Loading...
      zombi3grim
      At least they have positions and opportunitys waiting for them. Getting laid off sucks. Happened to me last December and [...]
      At least they have positions and opportunitys waiting for them. Getting laid off sucks. Happened to me last December and Im just NOW recovering from it....
    • Loading...
      ParagonT Then I saw the dreaded EA....
    • Loading...
  • Loading...

    Plants vs Zombies creator may have been fired in PopCap layoffs

    7 Comments
    • Loading...
      Longnuts PvZ2: 10 sunflower for a pea shooter... or pay $.99 for it now! Fuck EA
    • Loading...
      sandplasma
      Its ridiculous that he was let go if he did. If he was let go I will pirate the game [...]
      Its ridiculous that he was let go if he did. If he was let go I will pirate the game instead of buying it. Fkn EA.
    • Loading...
      robby bisschop Maybe he's starting a new job at Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/209
    • View all 7 comments
    • Loading...
  • Loading...

    PopCap, THQ and Funcom hit with layoffs

    8 Comments
    • Loading...
      FoxdenRacing
      Stay strong, devs...my sympathies, and most everyone's sympathies, go out to you. This 2-3 years of pain are not a [...]
      Stay strong, devs...my sympathies, and most everyone's sympathies, go out to you. This 2-3 years of pain are not a reflection of your ability to make great games. It's not a reflection of you at all. The clock has struck midnight on the current mega-blockbuster, mega-budget, wring-every-penny-out-of-everyone business model. In truth, it struck midnight a year to a year and a half ago, when THQ started to nosedive. The bell has been tolling its hollow, dreadful, and blood-freezing ring once every few months since, and will chime its dozenth chime when the last big publisher either collapses or figures out that their business model is the single biggest problem...not the employees, not the projects, not the gamers. (Yes, there are other problems, such as certain retailers turning parasitic in their own shortsighted, shameless cash grabs) But that's not to say all hope is lost. There's still a place in the world for traditional publishing, but the landscape has changed. 2K is doing it right. Atlus is doing it right. Valve is doing it right. It can be done, but the age of 'wipe your butt on a disc and sell a million copies' is over. The age of spending one's way to record-setting profits is over. The age of leveraged game production...gambling that game X will be a blockbuster, and cover for games Y, Z, and A that all broke even (or worse) is over. The age of hiding a game's true total cost of ownership behind a mountain of cut-to-be-sold-later DLC is ending (Before anyone goes there, yes, I'm aware not all DLC operates that way...and I have no issues whatsoever with DLC being the logical evolution of the expansion pack). The age of game companies being run by outsiders, run by fast-food and cleaning chemical executives that can't be bothered to take the time to understand the culture of gaming, is ending. The proof is in the alternatives. Indies are flourishing. Professional companies making simpler, low-budget games are raking in the cash. Traditionally-published games putting more emphasis on quality than bullet-points for the box are becoming a new generation's cult hits and cultural mainstays, and projects not blinded by greed are blasting every sales projection out of the water. And that's without even mentioning F2P, which I have a love-hate relationship with. It could completely revolutionize the subscription MMO segment, but is content to rest on its laurels and try to be something it's not...collectible <figures, cards, whatever> games where he who has the most cash to burn wins. It could be so much more, and could completely relegate '$X per month' MMOs to antiquity.
    • Loading...
      LordZarlon
      When are independent developers going to learn that it NEVER pays off to sell out to EA! You will get [...]
      When are independent developers going to learn that it NEVER pays off to sell out to EA! You will get laid off and your doors will be shuttered! Yes, I know, EA didn't close down PopCap but this is just the beginning.
    • Loading...
      EwoksTasteLikeChicken The same goes for Activision.
    • View all 8 comments
    • Loading...
  • Loading...

    Plants Vs Zombies... the official first-person shooter? Might actually be happening

    13 Comments
    • Loading...
      HickmanDarryl
      as Christina answered I cannot believe that a mother can profit $6161 in one month on the computer. have you [...]
      as Christina answered I cannot believe that a mother can profit $6161 in one month on the computer. have you read this webpage [N][u][t][t][y][R][i][c][h].[c][0][m]
    • Loading...
      masterjoe123 Did anyone else get an image of Nick Cage in a walnut costume?
    • Loading...
      TrAnMu
      I can see that a new plants vs zombies game is being preped for development but it's still iffy whether [...]
      I can see that a new plants vs zombies game is being preped for development but it's still iffy whether or not it's going to be a fps or not based solely on that job advert.
    • View all 13 comments
    • Loading...
  • Loading...

    Study says social game cheaters more likely to cheat in real life

    8 Comments
    • Loading...
      profile0000
      Well, Britons pay much more in taxes than most Americans, so I gotta think that has a lot to do [...]
      Well, Britons pay much more in taxes than most Americans, so I gotta think that has a lot to do with the twice as high tax-cheater rate. Interesting stats, nonetheless.
    • Loading...
      xerroz
      Except A LOT and i mean A LOT more is done with the taxes taken from Britons than Americans. A [...]
      Except A LOT and i mean A LOT more is done with the taxes taken from Britons than Americans. A big chunk of taxes taken from Americans just seems to poof
    • Loading...
      profile0000
      I'm not being critical of the UK or her taxing policies at all, just making an assumption that a much [...]
      I'm not being critical of the UK or her taxing policies at all, just making an assumption that a much higher tax rate (Britain) would give someone more incentive to cheat than a much lower one (America).
    • View all 8 comments
    • Loading...
  older stories
Connect with Facebook

Log in using Facebook to share comments, games, status update and other activity easily with your Facebook feed.