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EA is hiring a new brain for leading the next Plants vs. Zombies mobile game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts is hiring for a general manager in its Shanghai office to create a new Plants vs. Zombies mobile game.

The Redwood City, California-based game publisher posted an ad in China saying the PopCap Shanghai game studio is looking for a “game general manager” to “manage the development team for a new Plants vs. Zombies mobile game.” EA hasn’t announced any such game yet, so it seems like it’s early in the process.

Plants vs. Zombies has proven to be a resilient franchise ever since it debuted on the PC as a tower defense game (where you defend your base from waves of invading foes) in 2009. EA, which acquired PopCap Games in 2011 for $750 million, has been busy taking PvZ into the shooter world with the Garden Warfare series, and in 2016, it launched Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, a turn-based mobile game.

EA had no comment. The potential is certainly big for this kind of game. EA reported back in 2013 that Plants vs. Zombies 2 was downloaded 25 million times after just two weeks on the market on iOS in 2013.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.