Tech Shout!

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games has just announced that it has launched a custom version of its flagship game Bejeweled for the newly unveiled Apple iPhone.

The Bejeweled game can be played through Apple’s Safari Web browser. What’s more; it is available free of cost.

This customized version of Bejeweled for the iPhone uses the Web 2.0 capabilities of Safari and the wireless capabilities of the iPhone, and has also been optimized to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique display and input controls.

PopCap has developed the the Safari-based version of Bejeweled in partnership with Polish developer Arkadiusz Mlynarczyk, one the first programmers to take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities for video gaming purposes.

According to Andrews Stein, Director of Mobile Platforms at PopCap, “We are excited to be providing the most popular puzzle game of the 21st century to users of the most advanced mobile device yet created. We wanted to give the hundreds of thousands of iPhone users a fun, fast gaming fix- and at no cost, no less.”

Both Bejeweled and Zuma, which are incidentally PopCap’s games have been available on Apple’s video iPods since last year.