Peggle Nights Sees the Light of Day
on PCs
PopCap Games, a leading
developer and publisher of casual games, has announced the immediate
availability of Peggle Nights at http://www.popcap.com. The game is the
follow-up to the original Peggle game, which, PopCap says, was named one
of the top twenty videogames of 2007 according to the Guinness World
Records 2008 Gamers Edition.
It
sports 60 Adventure Mode levels and 60 new Challenge Mode hurdles, along
with a new "Peggle Master" power-up, new kinds of style shots,
achievements, and other special bonuses for the gamers.
In
addition, Peggle Nights takes players into the "dream worlds" of each of
the eleven Peggle Masters, providing five themed levels for each
character's secret dreams and aspirations.
According
to the company, Peggle has been downloaded from the web more than 20
million times since its introduction in February 2007, and has spawned
dozens of Facebook groups and clubs and hundreds of YouTube videos.
Popcap
has decided to bring the game both to mobile phones and Nintendo DS over
the coming months.
In the
game, players fire a metallic silver ball from the top of the screen,
relying on gravity to propel the ball downwards while it ricochets off
orange and blue "pegs".
The goal
is to clear all the orange pegs from the screen before running out of
balls. A moving "bucket" at the bottom of the screen offers free balls,
while green power-up pegs give the player special abilities via the Peggle
Masters who guide players through the game.
These
power-ups include explosive area-clearing blasts, lobster claws that serve
as pinball-type flippers, and "fireballs" that cut through all pegs in
their path.
Based in
Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff
of over 200 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C.,
Dublin, Ireland, and Shanghai.
Photo
courtesy: PopCap Games
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