MAY 17, 2011 • Amazon.com’s Android app store has made a deal with PopCap for the latter’s first two Android titles – Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies – to be exclusively available through Amazon for two weeks.

Impact: Both Chuzzle and Plants vs Zombies will also be made “App of the Day” where they will be available for free.  After that they will be sold for $2.99.  We would hope that PopCap was well compensated for this promotion, which clearly helps Amazon far more than it helps PopCap.  Showing one of the problems with the mobile phone game market, we prefer to pay $20 to play the DS version of Plants vs Zombies when we are on the road.  The game is so good it is worth to get the more robust version, even at nearly seven times the price.