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140M Bejeweled Blitz Games Played Everyday

By TechTaffy Desk

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Bejeweled Blitz has been played literally billions of times since debuting on Facebook four years ago, says PopCap. Nearly 50 million players around the world have spent 3.5 billion hours matching and destroying more than 30 trillion gems. Over 140 million games of Bejeweled Blitz are played each day.

Heather Hazen (Executive producer, PopCap Games): Supporting the Android platform is an important part of our mobile gaming strategy.  

PopCap Games, a division of Electronic Arts, has now launched Bejeweled Blitz for Android. The game is available for free download via Google Play.

 

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