DUBLIN, Ireland, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Extreme Fever Imminent

DUBLIN, Ireland, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual
games, today announced the immediate availability of Peggle Nights at
http://www.popcap.com. The game is the much-anticipated follow-up to the
original Peggle game - named one of the top twenty videogames of 2007
according to the Guinness World Records 2008 Gamers Edition.

Peggle Nights sports 60 all-new 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. In addition,
Peggle Nights takes players into the "dream worlds" of each of the eleven
Peggle Masters, providing five beautifully rendered and themed levels for
each character's secret dreams and aspirations.

"We at PopCap love the Peggle 'master' characters as much as
anyone, so we decided to delve into their personalities a bit further and
take a peek inside each one's dream states," explained Sukhbir Sidhu, studio
director in charge of Peggle and Peggle Nights at PopCap. "We also took the
opportunity to incorporate user feedback from the original game by adding
more challenges and style shots and ultimately making the game even more
achievement- and skill-oriented."

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. Due to the public
intense passion for Peggle, Popcap, who ordinarily shy away from talking
about future plans, has had to promise 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.

New features in Peggle Nights include:
    
    - New Peggle Master/power-up: "Marina," the electric squid,
      brings the number of Peggle Masters / power-ups to 11; her "Shockwave" 
      effect arcs between the first peg hit and the bucket at the bottom, 
      clearing all intervening pegs with a jolt of electricity
    
    - New Trophy/Achievement: In addition to the original game's
      "all clear" achievement, Peggle Nights sets an "ace" score for each 
      level; "acing" each level earns a special trophy
    
    - More Trophies: The new game offers four different trophies
      for the various achievements: completing Adventure Mode, completing 
      Challenge Mode, clearing all levels of all pegs, and "acing" all 
      levels. Oh, and a new trophy room to keep 'em in!
    
    - 60 Newly Designed Levels: Each Peggle Master has five themed
      "dream state" levels in the game's main Adventure mode, plus a final 
      Five Master levels in which the player chooses the Master/power-up

    - 60 New Challenges: Five dozen new Challenge Mode levels,
      with many fiendishly tricky objectives for players to reach; new types 
      of challenges include "low ball" challenges in which the player tries 
      to get the lowest possible score, Style Shot based challenges and 
      challenges involving specific or combined power-ups

    - New Style Shots: More ways to score bonus points based on
      the player's aim and timing acumen: "Off the Wall," "Double Long Shot" 
      and more

    - All-New Soundtrack: Maintaining the cultured sensibilities
      of the original Peggle, the new game offers a mix of original tunes and
      well-known classical music - including a fully-orchestrated 
      introduction by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra

    - Admire Your Skillz: You can now drag and drop replays of
      your top shots into the open game window to view them

    - Power-Up Improvements: Existing power-ups including Tula's
      "flower power," Kat Tut's "pyramid" and Lord Cinderbottom's "fireball" 
      have been tweaked to optimize their effectiveness

    - Level Packs (Coming Soon): Peggle Nights is designed to
      accept additional levels and PopCap plans to begin issuing custom-made, 
      in some cases themed, Level Packs



About PopCap

PopCap Games (http://www.popcap.com) is the leading
multi-platform provider of "casual games" - fun, easy-to-learn, captivating
computer games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. 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. Its games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times by
consumers worldwide, and its flagship title, Bejeweled(R), has sold more than
25 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and
critics, PopCap's games are played on the Web, desktop computers, myriad
mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod, iPhone and
more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox), and in-flight entertainment
systems. PopCap is the only casual games developer with leading market share
across all major sales channels, including Web portals, retail stores,
consoles, mobile phones and MP3 players.

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Cathy Orr, corr@popcap.com , +353-87-225-6488.