egacy[edit]

George Fan's layoff and Octogeddon[edit]

Main article: Octogeddon
PopCap Games and its assets were bought by EA on July 12, 2011, for $750 million.[138] Fifty
employees were laid off from PopCap Games' Seattle studio on August 21, 2012, marking a switch
of focus to mobile and social gaming.[139] After a statement by Edmund McMillen, creator of The
Binding of Isaac, rumors circulated that Fan was fired by EA because he opposed implementing pay-
to-win mechanics in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Fan confirmed in a 2017 tweet that he had been laid off,
and that he opposed the freemium aspects of Plants vs. Zombies 2, but did not link the two events.
[140][141]

Three former PopCap employees debunked the notion that Fan was fired because of his concerns
over the game, including Allen Murray, a former producer of Plants vs. Zombies 2. They said Fan
was fired as part of the systematic lay-offs in August 2012, and he was not even part of the Plants
vs. Zombies 2 team; he was working on other ideas for games at the time, including a game
called Full Contact Bingo. He had lost interest in Plants vs. Zombies when EA began envisioning the
game as a huge franchise.[140][141] Fan worked on the arcade action-strategy game Octogeddon after
being laid off,[142] initially as part of a Ludum Dare contest.[143] The game idea was received positively
and Fan formed a company along with Werner, the artist of Plants vs. Zombies, and Kurt Pfeiffer, the
programmer of the Xbox 360 port. They developed Octogeddon for several years,[144] releasing it on
February 8, 2018,[145] to generally positive reviews, according to Metacritic. [146]

Sequels and spin-offs[edit]

Main article: Plants vs. Zombies
Since EA's acquisition of PopCap Games, Plants vs. Zombies has expanded into a franchise
spanning many consoles and several genres. Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, a spin-off and social
game, was released for Facebook on May 20, 2011, [147] and closed on October 12, 2014.[148] A
mainline sequel named Plants vs. Zombies 2 was released for iOS on August 14, 2013. [149] Plants vs.
Zombies: Garden Warfare, a multiplayer third-person shooter, was released on February 25, 2014,
for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Xbox One, [150] and its sequel was released on February 23,
2016, for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.[151] A digital collectible card game, Plants vs. Zombies
Heroes, was released internationally for the iOS on October 18, 2016. [152] The franchise released its
third third-person shooter, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, on October 18, 2019, for the
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.[153][154] A third mainline title is currently in development for Android and
iOS as of October 2020.[155]
According to Metacritic, nearly all the sequels and spin-offs of Plants vs. Zombies received generally
positive reviews.[156] Despite his opposition to Plants vs. Zombies 2's freemium model,[27] Fan has
praised the series for delving into different genres, particularly Plants vs. Zombies Heroes's entering
digital card-collecting; he hopes EA will continue the series into more genres while keeping the
charm of the original.[29]

Other media[edit]
Zen Studios and PopCap made a downloadable content (DLC) interactive pinball table, based
on Plants vs. Zombies and using PopCap assets, during development of Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball
FX 2.[157][158] The DLC was released on September 4, 2012, in North America and September 5 in
Europe.[159][160]
In July and August 2013, Dark Horse Comics released six issues of a comic book adaptation
miniseries onto an iOS app. The miniseries was called Lawnmageddon, written by Paul Tobin and
drawn by Ron Chan.[161] Dark Horse Comics continued releasing issues for the next two years. In
2015 Dark Horse Comics started a monthly release of the comic series, in both digital and print;
every three issues formed a separate miniseries. The first print miniseries was called Bully for You.
[162]

Cultural references[edit]
According to Christ Carter, editor-in-chief of Destructoid, Plants vs. Zombies is frequently referenced
in pop culture. Fan said his favorite homage to the game is the Magic: The Gathering card "Grave
Bramble",[29] created as part of the Innistrad expansion.[163] A re-creation of Plants vs. Zombies was
added as a mini-game quest known as "Peacebloom vs. Ghouls" to World of Warcraft as part of
the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion.[164][165] Shigihara provided some music for the quest.[166]

Notes[edit]
1. ^ The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita ports were published by Sony Online Entertainment.
[1][2]

2. ^ Notley wrote the plants and zombies descriptions in the in-game Suburban Almanac. [3][4]

3. ^ Some announcements of Plant vs. Zombies before its release had showcased Zombatar, [44]

 but the feature was not included in the original game.

[45]

4. ^ Additional modes were later added through updates. [66]

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