Making longer and more complex words gives Lex greater fighting prowess, while special “gem” letter tiles offer a range of power-up effects of their own. In the Bookworm Adventures series, players take on the role of Lex the bookworm, leading him through a series of well-known books and fictional characters which Lex must overcome by forming words from an ever-changing set of letter tiles. Possibly due to an oversight, the DSiWare version of the original Bookworm remains available in North America as of September 2021. Some online gaming portals like SolitaireParadise claim to offer Bookworm but several others that we checked wouldn’t actually load the game. Physical versions of all three titles are available for PC while the original Bookworm is available for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. As late as September of 2017 PopCap’s trademark page continued to display all four Bookworm titles and EA’s international trademarks on Bookworm remain active through 2025. No further explanation has been given on why the games were removed although their delisting from EA’s own Origin and POGO services implies that an expired license of some sort is the cause.

In interactions that included Bookworm in interviews and on Twitter they would mention other PopCap franchises by name (Plants vs Zombies, Peggle, etc) while glancing over Bookworm.

They were last confirmed available on March 9th at, on March 26th at Origin, on April 6th at Steam and May 31st on Big Fish Games.Īfter the release and demise of the last Bookworm title - Bookworm Heroes for iOS, released in April of 2013 and shut down December 1st, 2014 - PopCap Games, Electronic Arts and even Bookworm’s key creators (now independent) fell silent on the franchise. Origin Page, PopCap's Bookworm Pageīookworm Deluxe, Bookworm Adventures Deluxe and Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2 were delisted from numerous online platforms between April and May of 2016.

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