PopCap Bringing Bejeweled Twist and Bookworm to DS & DSiWare

September 21, 2009

PopCap Expands Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist Franchises
With All-New Adaptations for NintendoDSiWare and Nintendo DS

PopCap’s First DSiWare Titles Deliver Unprecedented Depth
and Fun for Nintendo’s Online Store; DS Retail Installments Offer More Challenge
and Feature-Rich GamePlay Than Ever

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of the
world’s most widely played video games, today announced the upcoming launch of
two major adaptations of Bookworm™ and two, first-ever video game platform
adaptations of Bejeweled Twist™. These new iterations of two of PopCap’s most
successful franchises, mark PopCap’s entry into the DSiWare™ market, and its
continued support of Nintendo DS™ with all-new, feature-rich versions, fully
optimized for the Nintendo systems.

Bookworm will be available for the DSiWare service later this
month, followed by Bejeweled Twist for DSiWare in mid-October. Bookworm for DS
will launch at retail on December 1, 2009 and Bejeweled Twist for DS will be
released at retail in Q1 of 2010. 

“We’re bringing serious innovation to Bookworm and Bejeweled
Twist – two of our most important game franchises – to deliver unique features
and cool new multiplayer capabilities that have been specifically designed for
the Nintendo systems,” said Ed Allard, vice president of strategic development
at PopCap. “This Fall, Nintendo DSi Shop will give consumers an immediate jolt
of high quality fun and value with titles that feature more great gameplay
content than any other downloadable titles available on this platform. We’re
following them up with enhanced and expanded, must-have retail versions for the
DS that are the most full-featured installments of Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist
we’ve ever created.”  

Bookworm DSiWare and DS
Bookworm was originally released by PopCap in January of 2005 and has been
ported and re-optimized for ten different platforms, boasting over 100 million
downloads, and making it the world’s most popular digital word game. Now, for
the first time, Bookworm has been adapted for Nintendo DSiWare and Nintendo DS
with an array of new features and modes that are exclusively available on DS.
The DSiWare version of Bookworm includes the complete Classic mode and has been
specifically tuned for dual-screen, vertical use. The DS version offers all of
the content that has made Bookworm so popular as well as entirely new gameplay
not available anywhere else, including the multiplayer Bookworm Battle mode, 20
all-new Collectible Books, the ability to construct a library based on your game
progress, and the all-new “Lex-Ray” – a fun new way for the game’s hero, “Lex,”
to measure and track your growing spelling and vocabulary prowess.

With both new versions of Bookworm, players whet their
appetite for spelling fun in PopCap’s hit word-puzzle game, an immersive title
for word game aficionados of all ages and levels. Players link adjoining letter
tiles to build words, complete each level and feed “Lex.”  They’ll use Reward
Tiles and spell Bonus Words to boost their score.

Bejeweled Twist DSiWare and DS
Bejeweled Twist was originally released to critical acclaim in October 2008 and
these two new versions of Bejeweled Twist are the very first video game platform
adaptations of this important franchise. Bejeweled Twist now features the
ability to challenge and play other gamers over an ad-hoc wireless connection.
Playing on either the DS, or on the Nintendo DSi™ system, this is the first game
to allow for interoperable multiplayer gaming between these two platforms.

In Bejeweled Twist, players rotate 2×2 blocks of gems in an
effort to create a line of three or more gems of the same type. They don’t have
to match every move – instead they can freely rotate gems anywhere on the board,
allowing increased strategic freedom to plan combinations, cascades and chains
of various matches. With its phenomenal production values, Bejeweled Twist
bedazzles players with a wealth of new power-ups and obstacles. New gem types
include Flame, Lightning and Fruit gems that produce fiery explosions and other
powerful effects; and new obstacles such as Bomb and Locked gems as well as Coal
will challenge players as never before. Additionally, a host of new game modes
offer vastly different ways to experience Bejeweled Twist.

Bejeweled Twist for DSiWare features the addicting gameplay of
Classic and Multiplayer modes, offering infinite replayability. Bejeweled Twist
DS is a full-featured version containing even more gameplay action, including
three additional game modes: Zen (for a quick stress-busting experience), Blitz
(for past-paced action to challenge even the most hardcore players) and
Challenge (featuring infinite action and multiple levels of difficulty). This is
the first time that Bejeweled Twist has been ported to any video game console.