Fifty employees were laid off in the Seattle studio of PopCap Games on August 21, 2012, to mark a switch of focus to mobile and social gaming. PopCap Games and its assets were bought by EA on July 12, 2011, for 750 million dollars. Zombies was officially released on May 5, 2009, for PC and Mac. Zombies, PopCap released a demo version of the game that allowed you to play the game for thirty minutes. On April 22, 2009, PopCap released an official game trailer of Plants vs. Zombies would be released soon on PC and Mac. A PopCap spokesperson, Garth Chouteau, revealed in an IGN interview that Plants vs.
On April 1, 2009, PopCap released a music video for the song 'Zombies on your Lawn' to promote Plants vs.