bejeweled-3 posts

As promised, PopCap Games has released Bejeweled 3, the latest game in the developer's hugely popular puzzle game series. In addition to the game's four classic game modes, Bejeweled 3 has four new gameplay modes such as the very peaceful Zen mode where you just keep playing the game forever. The new version also has higher resolution graphics a new achievement system and more features.

Our sister site Games.com has more info on today's Bejeweled 3 launch including a download link to get the full version for $19.95. In addition that site is giving away 10 copies of the game to some lucky readers.

While there are other PC games planned for released later in December this is the final week of the year that we will see multiple major game releases. That includes a huge MMO expansion, the next game in a very popular casual puzzle game series and a game based on a much beloved movie franchise.

World of Warcraft Cataclysm - Blizzard is doing something a little different for its third expansion pack for its massively popular MMO game series. In addition to adding two new playable races, new quests and dungeons, a raise in the level cap and more, some of the earlier game zones are getting a makeover with new quests replacing some old ones as well as other changes.

Ok, who ordered all of these late-night game announcements and reveals from EA today? How odd. Are the PR folks testing web news boys like us to see if we are still working? If so, the answer is obviously , "Yes".

• As we first reported would happen, Guardians of Graxia is now available on the Steam download service with a 10 percent discount for the next week.
• Also the Chaos Parachute DLC item for Just Cause 2 is now available for free via Steam to all owners of the game.
• There's a new Source Engine update available via Steam that fixes bugs for several Valve games.
• Bejeweled 3 is now available for pre-order on Steam with a 10 percent discount. Also owners of the Steam versions three previous games in the series can get Bejeweled 3 for 20 percent off.
• The creator of the indie-made MMO Love is giving away his animation tool.

Bejeweled 3, the latest game in publisher PopCap's multi-million selling puzzle game series, has just been announced. The company is calling this game the first true sequel to the series in the last six years (it did release a game called Bejeweled Twist for the PC in 2008).

Bejeweled 3 will contain the four gameplay modes found in Bejeweled 2 (updated and expanded, naturally) along with new "secret' modes like Ice Storm, Butterflies and Poker (well if you mention them in the press release, PopCap, then they are not a secret anymore, are they?). In addition there will be a Quest mode with 11 mini-games which PopCap claims will be "clever hybrids of Bejeweled game-play with other classic game mechanics." You can expect to be addicted to Bejeweled 3 when its released via download and in retail stores on December 7. In the meantime our sister site Games.com has a chat with PopCap Games' co founder James Kapalka about Bejeweled 3.