PopCap brings Bejeweled 2 to iPhone/iPod

Nearly five million users have already played the web app version of Bejeweled since its debut last summer, and popCap claims ‘hundreds of millions more have played the PC, online and console versions’.

“With the launch of Bejeweled 2 for iPhone, PopCap further strengthens its relationship with Apple to support the world’s most popular handheld devices,” noted Andrew Stein, director of mobile platforms at PopCap.

“We’ve developed a winning strategy of taking our most popular, top-selling titles and optimizing them specifically to take advantage of a range of next-generation mobile devices like the iPhone. In launching PopCap’s first iPhone-native game, we continue to deliver the best mobile gaming content on any platform.”

The iPhone-native version has been fully optimised and enhanced to support iPhone 2.0 software and iPhone 3G.

The game will be available for $9.99 from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore