I miss old PopCap like you miss old BioWare

From 2000 to 2010, one of the most important studios in videogames was making the kind of games you'd see dismissed off-hand today. If PopCap released Bejeweled out of the blue right now every YouTube comment would say "looks like a shit mobile game," but instead we live in the reality where PopCap dominated the casual game market for an entire decade, and now almost everything on mobile looks like a shit PopCap game.

PopCap was so important there was a Peggle game in the Orange Box. Valve's...