Bejeweled Twist, Your New Digital Addiction | Game | Life from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/games...
"Half a billion people have spent more than 6 billion hours playing Bejeweled, and 10 percent of those have actually shelled out their own money to buy it. PopCap, which has grown from a garage outfit to a company with more than 200 employees, has ported the game to Xbox 360, Playstation 2 and every phone OS imaginable, not to mention Palm Pilot, Pocket PC and iPod. You can play it to win cash on gambling sites, there are Bejeweled-themed casino machines in Vegas, and in Australia, you can even get scratch-off lottery tickets based on it. Now, PopCap is hoping to hit the jackpot again. Today, casual gamers will get their twitchy paws on the PC version of Bejeweled Twist -- a follow-up that's been four years and a record-setting $1 million in the making. Twist stays true to the original's unique charms, but radically alters the gameplay. The object of the game is still to make rows and columns of three identical gems. But instead of swapping the positions of two side-by-side gems, you have to rotate two - Shannon Jiménez