PopCap today detailed the Nintendo DS versions of Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist--announced in passing earlier this year--as well as announcing DSiWare releases.

While the downloadable DSiWare titles will have modes trimmed out, the DS cartridge releases offer the full shebang--and Bookworm further receives new modes and features. Interestingly, Bejeweled Twist offers multiplayer across the two versions.

Bejeweled Twist arrives on DSiWare this month--which must mean next Monday--with the DS version hitting retail on December 1. Bookworm DSiWare will be released in mid-October, while the DS version isn't due until the first quarter of 2010. Keep on reading for the word from PopCap on which version contains what... Read more

Next week's release of Peggle: Dual Shot won't be the only PopCap game to hit Nintendo DS this year, as the casual publisher told Forbes that it's planning to bring perennial time wasters Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist to to the portable soon.

Bookworm challenges players to find words in a randomized tablet of letters, while Bejeweled Twist has players matching three or more blocks of the same color.

In addition, PopCap VP Greg Canessa teased the company's new original PC game, Plants vs. Zombies, describing it as a combination of "the real-time strategy genre, the tower defense games and collectible card games--but in a casual context."

Plants vs. Zombies is due out later this year. And while the description may sound a little confusing, to say the least, Forbes writer Chris Morris points out PopCap has a knack for such things. After all, the ball-bouncing bliss of Peggle could be described as a combination of "pachinko, gravitational physics, pinball, geometry and cartoon animals."