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Bejeweled 2 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the more-shiny-things-to-futz-with dept.

swaptastic writes "In what seems like the year of fantastic sequels, Popcap Games has released the follow up to their flagship game Bejeweled. I am amazed that they continue to create such fun games, without relying on spyware to make money. In conjunction with the launch of Bejeweled 2, Popcap has decided to donate 1 dollar for every game they sell until x-mas to the Child's Play Charity."

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  1. Crap! by numbski · · Score: 5, Informative

    It requires ActiveX.

    Firefox on a Mac here. More than half of PopCap's games don't work for me. Only the java ones (Alchemy for example).

    It's all a plot to make us *nix users more productive than our Windows counterparts. ...

    Oh wait....

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  2. Staggering! by TheSwink · · Score: 5, Insightful
    That's just amazing...are you guys aware just how many copies of Bejeweled 2 Popcap is likely to sell in that time? That's unbelievably generous.

    Also interesting and of note are the fact that it's basically the same game with more highly polished graphics and sound. Oh, and Scott Kim did the new puzzle mode, which won't appeal to fans (addicts?) of the original game but which will likely rope in more 'hardcore' players. Bejeweled is the quintessential casual game, the first breakout success in a sector that went from 0 to multimillion in the last five years or so.

    Swink