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Oct 28, 2026
Steve NotleyHOST
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Steve NotleyHOST
Hello, and welcome to PopPlays, a spin-off of the unofficial PopCap PopCast, wherein I, Steve Notley, PopCast co-host and former writer-designer of PopCap Games, play through some of the games I worked on.
Steve NotleyHOST
Today we are playing Peggle Adventure Mode.
Steve NotleyHOST
We're wrapping up with the master level.
Alexandra TakeiHOST
And it's such a hard road to cross, a chasm to cross, if you've never worked at a studio yourself or never worked on an IP and coming in from the outside.
Alexandra TakeiHOST
So you had someone, a very senior leader, I think, join your first executive who was background Xbox, PopCap, and Activision Blizzard.
Alexandra TakeiHOST
Greg joined as your COO.
Alexandra TakeiHOST
I think also in April, you acquired a company called Reflection Tree, which was a planning system for Unreal Engine 5.
Scott JohnsonHOST
no.
Scott JohnsonHOST
I heard from a fan who's on Blue Sky who says they used to work at PopCap.
Scott JohnsonHOST
It's another one.
Scott JohnsonHOST
It's another thing they killed.
Scott JohnsonHOST
EA buys PopCap to kind of take over this sort of casual and mobile market thing.
Scott JohnsonHOST
pop cap made legitimately amazing games they invented the match three jewel match three business like that that's billions of dollars
Beau SchwartzHOST
i mean their their ips are legendary
CameronHOST
worry, what's the one Plants vs. Zombies? They kind of swapped them into mobile stuff.
CameronHOST
PopCap? PopCap, yeah.
MattHOST
Yeah, potentially.
MattHOST
In terms of minimising, I
CameronHOST
don't think they would ever close PopCap, but just focusing more mobile.
MattHOST
Yeah.
CameronHOST
Stuff as opposed to concentrating on consoles and PC.
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
uh spledge fiction is really good um i'm not a big sports gamer but obviously millions of people enjoy those and usually there is a fc and a madden and another ea sports game at the top of the the top 10 sellers list you get from cercana in the year right but at the same time like when it comes to acquisitions um I'm not an EA fan.
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
One of my favorite developers of all time was PopCap Studios.
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
They made the most addictive, casual, serious casual games from Plants vs. Zombies to Bejeweled to...
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
Peggle.
Justin DavisPANELIST
... video games on time and on budget in a way that's, like, profitable.
Justin DavisPANELIST
And, like, you have to be like a Larian Studors, Studios and be able to take years and years and years to make an all-timer like Baldur's Gate 3, right?
Daemon HatfieldHOST
Yeah.
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
You know? And, uh, look, the, the big question here is, you know, BioWare fundamentally changed, right? The, the original, uh, y- uh, you know, uh, Greg and Ray, the original, uh, founders, uh, retired at one point.
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
I, I, I do think that BioWare ran into some of those challenges already with Mass Effect 3, right? Where people were really disappointed at the ending because they thought choices in the previous two games mattered, and then it turns out, no, not really, right? And, like, um, they, they, they tried to fix that obviously.
Sam ClaibornPANELIST
Yeah, they redid the ending.
Peer SchneiderPANELIST
But from, from then on out, we never got back to sort of the original, the, the sort of freedom of choice approach that they were known for and that, you know, everybody's lauding Larian Studios for.
Sam ClaibornPANELIST
Mm-hmm.
Ben HansonHOST
Mark Darrah on his YouTube channel, hopefully he can shed more insight on what the hell happened here because it's just – I feel like it's – I want to say the first big shoe to drop other than huge layoffs at EA for like beloved studios closing.
Ben HansonHOST
But I mean PopCap – it's like – I mean I don't even know what studio would be the next on the chopping block but like – EA is going to continue to gut everything around them.
Ben HansonHOST
There's going to be no
Haley MacLeanPANELIST
developers in 20 years.
Scott JohnsonHOST
no.
Scott JohnsonHOST
I heard from a fan who's on Blue Sky who says they used to work at PopCap.
Scott JohnsonHOST
It's another one.
Scott JohnsonHOST
It's another thing they killed.
Scott JohnsonHOST
EA buys PopCap to kind of take over this sort of casual and mobile market thing.
Scott JohnsonHOST
pop cap made legitimately amazing games they invented the match three jewel match three business like that that's billions of dollars
Beau SchwartzHOST
i mean their their ips are legendary
Beau SchwartzHOST
Do they have another RPG company? Not really, no.
Scott JohnsonHOST
I heard from a fan who's on Blue Sky who says they used to work at PopCap.
Scott JohnsonHOST
It's another one.
Scott JohnsonHOST
It's another thing they killed.
Scott JohnsonHOST
EA buys PopCap to kind of take over this sort of casual and mobile market thing.
Scott JohnsonHOST
pop cap made legitimately amazing games they invented the match three jewel match three business like that that's billions of dollars i mean
Beau SchwartzHOST
their
Steve NotleyHOST
[gentle music] Hello, greetings, and welcome to another installment of Pop Plays, an unofficial PopCap, Popcast side project, wherein I, Steve Notley, former writer designer at PopCap Games, play through some of the games I worked on.
Steve NotleyHOST
Uh, right now we are doing Peggle Adventure mode, and, uh, let us just jump right in and get to it.
Steve NotleyHOST
Okay, here we go.
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