Tag archive: Plants vs. Zombies

This is technically a guide to the best Kindle Fire apps, but really, it's a guide to our favorite apps on Amazon's Appstore for Android. Most of these apps are available on Android smartphones and tablets as well, but not all of them. The Kindle Fire is quickly becoming the hottest device outside of the iPad and at $200, it's the first one that almost anyone can afford, if they save up. Below are our favorite apps and games… Read More

Electronic Arts (EA) announced today that it will acquire PopCap Games in a deal that may reach as much as a total of $1.3 billion . Last month, PopCap was rumored to have a mystery buyer that was offering somewhere around $1 billion. Given EA’s recent forays into social gaming, the deal doesn’t come as a huge surprise. PopCap is behind popular games Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle, Zuma, and Bejeweled. ‘We picked EA because they have recast their… Read More

PopCap Games is the developer behind what are arguably some of the most popular releases in the mobile space. Rovio might have Angry Birds, but PopCap has Peggle. And Plants Vs. Zombies. And Bejeweled. Some other cool things are coming up too, such as the recently announced deal with Alice: Madness Returns creator American McGee's Spicy Horse Games. PopCap releases have been slow to embrace support for Google's Android OS, but a new… Read More

Windows Phone 7 is still somewhat new to the mobile operating system space, but Microsoft is hoping that gamers at least will be sold by its built-in interconnectivity with Xbox Live. The challenge of course is convincing all of those people who have already purchased apps for Apple iOS and Google Android to give up those purchases and switch to an entirely new marketplace. The Microsoft platform offers Xbox Live Achievements and leaderboards… Read More

Casual game maker PopCap seems to have another hit on its hands with the whimsical Plants vs. Zombies, a strategy-based game in which wacky zombies try to invade your house…and, of course, your only real defense is a garden of assorted zombie-destroying plants. We know it doesn't make any sense, and that's part of the fun—and lots of computer users would seem to agree, since the downloadable version of the game available via the Web… Read More

Netbooks make fine travel machines for surfing, typing and watching videos, but as most new owners eventually discover, things start to get a little slow when you push too far beyond the basics. After all, 1.6GHz and 1GB of RAM can only take you so far. But you needn’t resign yourself to typing in Notepad and playing Minesweeper whenever you leave the big guns at home in favor of a netbook. We’ve rounded up some of the best lightweight software… Read More