September 16, 2008
PopCap
Launches Peggle Nights for PC
Second Installment of Casual Game
of 2007 Winner Takes Players Inside the Dream Worlds of the Peggle Masters; New
Peggle Master, Achievements and Challenges
PopCap Games today announced the
immediate availability of Peggle Nights, the much-anticipated follow-up to the
original Peggle game, which garnered more than a dozen media and industry
accolades including “casual game of the year” following its introduction in
early 2007. 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. Peggle Nights carries a retail price of US$19.95;
a free trial of the deluxe version is available for download at www.popcap.com.
Other leading game portals, including RealArcade, MSN Games, STEAM, Wild Games
and Yahoo! Games, will begin offering the game next month.
“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.”
The original Peggle was named to
numerous “best of 2007” awards lists, including being named one of the “Top Ten
Video Games of 2007” by PC Gamer magazine. 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.
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.
