Folks who have access to the newly launched Apple App Store will be able to download the highly addictive Bejeweled 2 game from PopCap Games. To date, nearly five million users have already had countless hours of fun with the webb application, while hundreds of millions have whiled their time away on the PC, online and console versions. In total, the Bejeweled franchise has seen more than six billion hours of productivity go down the drain - I wonder what bosses have to say about that. According to Andrew Stein, director of mobile platforms at PopCap, “With the launch of Bejeweled 2 for iPhone, PopCap further strengthens its relationship with Apple to support the world’s most popular handheld devices. 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.”

Tuned specifically for the iPhone, Bejeweled 2 offers touch screen support with intelligence to determine which gem a player meant to touch (select), even when the player hasn’t used precise finger strokes to “hit” the second gem perfectly. Additionally, the game will use the accelerometer to detect orientation and automatically shift between vertical and landscape modes depending on how the user is holding the device.

It will be fully optimized and enhanced to support iPhone 2.0 software and iPhone 3G. You will be able to pick up Bejeweled 2 for your iPhone for a mere $9.99.

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