



Of course, that means "Bejeweled 3" arrives at a time when match-three games are, well, rather tired. Most of them have been shoddy knock offs, but some of them have been pretty impressive innovations on the idea. Which is to say that, over the years, there have been a whole lot of games that have tried to do what "Bejeweled" does. These gem-matching games are now known as match-three games. PopCap estimates they sell a "Bejeweled" game every 4.3 seconds and that some 7.5 billion hours have been spent playing the game.īut beyond the franchise's own success, "Bejeweled" and "Bejeweled 2" not only helped propel the popularity of casual games as a whole but also spawned an entirely new genre of games. Since the franchise launched a decade ago, more than 50 million units have been sold across 17 platforms. the challenge of trying to get as many matches as you can as quickly as you can. That simple puzzle mechanic is delightful in itself, but the challenge of chaining together as many matches as you can in a single move. The basics of "Bejeweled" are seemingly simple - faced with a game board filled with rows and columns of different kinds of sparkling gems, it's your job to swap adjacent gems to match at least three gems of the same kind. Zombies" and "Peggle" on top of "Bejeweled" spinoffs like "Bejeweled Blitz" and "Bejeweled Twist." Nowadays, the company boasts 350 employees in offices around the globe and has delivered hits like "Plants vs. Created by three guys working out of an apartment in Seattle, "Bejeweled" won the hearts of bored office workers everywhere and skyrocketed to popularity, launching those three guys - aka PopCap Games - into the gaming big leagues. It's been ten years since the first "Bejeweled" launched as a browser game. pretty much everyone who owns a computer has played "Bejeweled" or, at the very least, has played one of the many many "Bejeweled" knockoffs out there. You have played "Bejeweled" right? I mean. That's because "Bejeweled 3" - the first true "Bejeweled" sequel in six years - is more "Bejeweled" and better "Bejeweled." In fact, it's the best "Bejeweled" there's ever been. "Bejeweled 3" has launched and it will suck you in just as its ground-breaking predecessors have sucked you in. Zombies" even though, yes, both games were created by casual gaming powerhouse PopCap Games and, yes, both games are brain-consumingly addictive. And no, I'm not getting my "Bejeweled" crossed with my "Plants vs.
