By John Walker on November 11th, 2011 at 12:34 am.
Bloodhound-nosed Lewie P gets in touch to say he had a bit of an interesting encounter with a PopCap fellow, via the medium of Twitter. One that rather strongly suggested that the company might be gearing up for Peggle 2. Lead designer at PopCap, Adam Orth, sent out a tweet asking for an Art Director “for the Peggle franchise”. Lewie retweeted this, and then said on his own account, “Imagine Peggle 2″. To which Orth replied, “I am.” Which he has since deleted. Rather tellingly. However, Lewie had already retweeted it. So yes, an awful lot of he said/she said. Except without the shes. We’re going to contact PopCap to see if we can get an answer out of them. But in the meantime, let’s all just assume it’s true so hard that it has to happen.
11/11/2011 at 00:40 pakoito says:
Not the popcap game I’m waiting for.
11/11/2011 at 06:30 bfandreas says:
Tall-nut doesn’t approve of Peggle :(
11/11/2011 at 09:50 Roshin says:
Agreed. I never understood why Peggle was popular. I think it’s rather weak compared to some other Popcap offerings.
11/11/2011 at 00:41 Vinraith says:
Peggle was lovely, but Peggle Nights more than proved to me that it’s not something I need more of.
11/11/2011 at 00:47 DigitalSignalX says:
Curious how can you improve Peggle perfection? More maps, more skills, more dirty unicorn sex? We’ve already all this in the expansion didn’t we?
11/11/2011 at 00:50 Lewie Procter says:
Crazy new things!
11/11/2011 at 00:57 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
More dirty unicorn sex?
11/11/2011 at 01:06 A-Scale says:
Better graphics options, more story based, new powers, larger fields of play, new map items (built in flippers, conveyor belts, etc). More maps. Better challenges.
11/11/2011 at 01:07 Lewie Procter says:
They have earlier said that all their future PC games will support up to 1920×1200.
11/11/2011 at 01:24 bear912 says:
Wait, which one was the dirty unicorn sex expansion?
11/11/2011 at 02:13 Baf says:
And does “more dirty unicorn sex” mean “dirty unicorn sex in greater quantities” or “unicorn sex that is more dirty”?
11/11/2011 at 07:26 DigitalSignalX says:
And you thought Ode to Joy was only for winning a round! I was sore for weeks.
11/11/2011 at 08:52 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Can we have more dirty unicorn sex in terms of both quality and quantity?
11/11/2011 at 08:57 BooleanBob says:
Well, if Lewie is right, we’re looking at 1920×1200 dirty, sexy unicorns. ‘More’ is heavily implied!
11/11/2011 at 14:55 Obc says:
how to make it better?
Peggle will be reimagined as a Cyberpunk FPS !!!! you heard it here first
11/11/2011 at 01:28 gou says:
A new measurement of filesize eh? sounds interesting.
11/11/2011 at 02:02 jonfitt says:
Will it still have Ode To Joy? Or is it even possible to find something more awesome?
11/11/2011 at 02:24 Starky says:
Maybe Pachelbel’s canon, but that doesn’t have the instant gratification that ode to joy has.
11/11/2011 at 04:36 jonfitt says:
It’s popular, but doesn’t EXPLODE! with excellence.
11/11/2011 at 06:26 bfandreas says:
Beethoven had dedicated his Eroika to Napoleon. He later scratched his name off of it in a fit of rage. He used Schillers lyrics for Ode To Joy which in itself is the most important toast to humanity, freedom and cool stuff you will ever need to memorize.
So no. Ode To Joy is the hot shtuff.
Well, there’s always this. But it won’t please the plebes…
http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin#p/a/u/2/6s0Mp7LFI-k
Pachelbel was the music teacher of JS Bach’s big brother.
But Bach never had the fierceness of Beethoven.
11/11/2011 at 11:29 3lbFlax says:
Ode to Joy is superhuman music. It comes from the past and the future and all points between, shooting up the spine as if Ludwig just smashed your kundalini test-your-strength machine with Mjölnir itself. And it’s DING DING, PRIZES GALORE!
11/11/2011 at 04:12 Thermal Ions says:
Peggle FPS
ManUnicorn-shooter ?11/11/2011 at 10:31 Inglourious Badger says:
That’s what I heard
11/11/2011 at 07:05 downgrade says:
Origin exclusive.
You heard it here first.
11/11/2011 at 07:31 Dimitar Slavov says:
Woot.
11/11/2011 at 08:56 Deoden says:
Correct me if I’m wrong John, but I thought you hated Peggle?
11/11/2011 at 20:52 Wulf says:
Ooh, I hope so. I’d totally be up for a sequel to Peggle 2. Though sadly I wouldn’t buy such a thing on the PC, I find that it’s far, far more suited to touch devices like Android and iOS tablets. They’ve been surprising me, lately. Shadowgun was pretty much ‘holy crap,’ due to how graphically impressive it was on Tegra 2 hardware.
The funniest thing about Shadowgun though was that the main character is so, so much more appealing than Marcus Wotshisface from Gears of War. He actually has a sense of humour, irony, and he’s intelligent. And the bad guy? Not a faceless alien race, oh no, but rather a human. A crazed mad scientist (yay, we don’t have enough of those, these days, we really don’t). He’s an escapee, he was a corporate slave, and my job is to bring him back. Which probably makes my guy the bad guy, too. Also refreshing!
I was surprised at how good that was, really.
Gods damn segues, I do fall prey to them, don’t I? I’m supposed to be talking about Peggle 2. But yes, I like my Android tablet device thingamabob, it’s lovely, and I’d very much like to have Peggle 2 on it.