{"id":14704,"date":"2011-10-13T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"popcap-announces-popcorn-dragon-for-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14704-popcap-announces-popcorn-dragon-for-ios","title":{"rendered":"PopCap announces Popcorn Dragon for iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PopCap has yanked the curtains back on its latest virtual crackpipe for iOS, Popcorn Dragon.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the first project announced since EA bought PopCap back in July for $650 million.<\/p>\n<p>The game will harness the might and magic of futuristic touchscreen technology to have players drag a dragon around and about, breathing fireballs onto popcorn kernels and then gobbling up the resulting popcorn.<\/p>\n<p>All the while avoiding bad guys like ghosts and pirates, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>Your morning trip to the toilet is going to double in fun.<\/p>\n<p>That dragon actually reminds me a bit of Falcor from The Neverending Story.<\/p>\n<p>And what has been seen cannot now be unseen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>And there upon the rainbow is the answer<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>To a neverending story<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Aaaah aah-aah, aah aah-aaaaah aah aah aaaah aah-aah&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No word yet on pricing or a launch date, but it&rsquo;s expected sometime later this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/popcorn_dragon_319044076.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18904-PopCap-s-Popcorn-Dragon-coming-to-iOS\" target=\"_self\"><strong>PopCap&#8217;s Popcorn Dragon coming to iOS<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OM NOM NOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}