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Olympic News Update: The Claw!
When our fearless leader asked, “Do you want to cover Omegaclaw for the blog?” I leapt at the chance, convinced that “Omegaclaw” was a supervillain and I could call upon my inner Jimmy Olsen to get the scoop on Metropolis’ …
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Olympic News Update: Zombie Moves to the Music
If you’ve been following our PopCap Olympics coverage, you may have watched Zombie’s attempt at Nerf Marksmanship last week. Needless to say, his aim could have been a little better. So this week, Zombie participated in a less skill-based event, …
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Olympics News Update: Zombie Takes Aim
One of the ways you can tell if you work in a cool office: look around for little orange darts littering the carpet. (It’s true; it’s been documented.) Nerf battles are a common enough occurrence in the halls of PopCap, and …
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PopCap Olympics 2012
We’ve been teasing this one for a while in various blog posts, so I am very pleased to say that the PopCap Olympics are finally here! I know I look forward to this every year, the chance to compete and …
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Want Some Juicy, Creative Brains?
I’ve been asking a bunch of folks here what they do to get — and keep — their creative juices flowing day after day. Because the truth is that creating awesome games is tons of fun, but it’s also hard …
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3 Things on My Desk: The Dana Variations
Greetings internet friends. Welcome to another installment of our incredibly irregular series “3 Things on My Desk” in which we take a look the interesting, amusing and sometimes-useful things that people surround themselves with at work. Today we pay a …
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Say Hello to Snombie!
So, as some of you may know, we here in the Pacific Northwest are having our very own Snowmaggedon. Or Snowpocalypse, if you prefer. These names started out as something of a joke amongst the locals, because we knew, deep …
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To the North Pole and Back: PopCap Holiday Wrap-Up
The holiday season is in full force so we thought we’d share some of the things our offices are doing to celebrate. While we adults had our late-night holiday party at the beginning of December, our Workforce Culture team planned …
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A Very Merry Unbirthday to You! And you…and you…
This year, a new tradition started at PopCap: the never-ending birthday. We have a crew of lovely people who decorate your desk to ensure that you feel special on your special day and remind everyone who passes that they ought to consider …
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Rejected Game Taglines
One of my jobs here at PopCap is creating — or at least helping smarter people create — game taglines. Usually, after we’ve decided on a tagline, we totally forget about the other ideas. I mean, for every “Get ready …
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