![]() Zombies and Peggle - more than 150 million games. Sales of Bejeweled made up about 40 percent of its revenues, and about 20 percent came from Plants vs Zombies, PopCap chief executive Dave Roberts told VentureBeat. But the company was born in 2000, long before the era of social gaming.Ĭasual gamers have downloaded PopCap’s games - like Plants vs. ![]() ![]() PopCap cofounder John Vechey said in an interview with VentureBeat that Electronic Arts felt like a great match because John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, is very knowledgeable about games and understands what PopCap is good at. Barry Cottle, head of EAi, the company’s mobile and casual game studio, said the deal is a smart one and that EA did not pay an excessive amount for PopCap.Ĭottle said PopCap is one of the dominant companies in casual games with fast growth on both Facebook and mobile games. The company makes more than $100 million in revenues a year and is growing at a 30 percent rate.
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