The study was commissioned by Popcap games, which, as the makers of the hugely popular Plants vs.
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Lots of candy: trick-or-treaters receive an average of 90.9 pieces, according to the American Dental Association and PopCap Games.
"RIM today is not really on our radar, " says Andrew Stein, director of mobile business development for PopCap Games Inc.
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Last September, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) became the number two player in social gaming, thanks in part to its acquisition of PopCap Games.
Now with the addition of PopCap Games we expect the competition to only intensify going forward, and we will be eagerly following this for the next quarter.
And there are few in the industry, particularly in the casual games genre, who can match the track record of PopCap Games when it comes to hit intellectual property.
Social games are thought to be heavily female dominated, and a few developers like Zynga and PopCap Games have even reported that their games heavily skew towards women.
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While Glu does create its own games, the company also strikes deals with other game companies and well-known brands and makes their games available as well--so you'll find mobile games from Atari, Celador, Fox, PopCap Games, Sega Europe, Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting, Hasbro and Harrah's Entertainment.
The Android release will be part of AIR 2.5 and grant would-be developers access to your smartphone's camera, microphone, accelerometer and GPS as well as providing hardware GPU acceleration and multitouch input, which could make for some exciting PopCap games completely serious and not at all game related utilities down the road.
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PopCap developed games for BlackBerrys as recently as a few years ago.
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Though many pundits have predicted the death of traditional brick-and-mortar retailers for selling games, PopCap says those outlets have been a key part of sales.
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PopCap offers a variety of widely player games, like Bejeweled, Plants Vs.
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