PopCap Games is an American video game developer and publisher, based in Seattle, Washington, United States, and it is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. It was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, and currently employs about 400 people. Most of Popcap's games can be played free in a limited form, with the full version available for a fee.
PopCap’s flagship title Bejeweled has sold more than 50 million units across all major platforms and continues to sell another copy of itself every 4.3 seconds. PopCap games are available for Web, PC and Mac, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360,PlayStation 3, Zeebo, Cell Phones, PDAs, iPod Classic, iOS, Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Windows Phone, and other mobile devices.
Most games run both with or without hardware acceleration, are usually controllable with the mouse, and often feature various game modes based on the same concept (although in many cases, this is just the introduction of a time limit).
PopCap Games has won at least 25 industry awards, including Computer Gaming World Hall of Fame status for Bejeweled.
Games generally use tracker music as soundtracks, often written by Future Crew members Jonne Valtonen and Peter Hajba. Three exceptions are Talismania, which featured an ethnically Greek soundtrack with a modern twist, Peggle, which featured an easy listening soundtrack (as well as a choral passage of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), both by SomaTone Productions, and Plants vs Zombies, which featured an original soundtrack composed by Laura Shigihara.
