A demo for PopCap's "vocabularious" puzzle effort Bookworm Adventures 2 (PC) is now available from FileShack, offering a sample of the just-released casual game, with PopCap also briefly dropping the price of Bookworm iPhone to a mere $0.99.

The 55MB demo of Bookworm Adventures 2 provides 60 minutes of the word-building puzzler before demanding that you pony up $19.95 for the whole shebang. If that seems a little steep, just wait--PopCap will be releasing each of the game's three chapters as individual episodes come August 19, though pricing is not yet confirmed.

Meanwhile, the sale on Bookworm iPhone (normally $4.99) will run until August 5.

In a move that will leave some awestruck and others wondering what the big deal is, casual developer PopCap today announced that a sequel to its extremely addictive word-forming RPG Bookworm Adventures will arrive July 30, 2009 in PC form.

Bookworm Adventures 2 brings new mini-games and three new ten-chapter books to the mix while retaining the core challenge of trying to assemble the longest word, as quickly as possible, with the provided letters and tiles.

Priced at $20, Bookworm Adventures 2 will initially be sold as a downloadable game through PopCap's official website. An eventual release on digital distribution platform Steam seems likely, as PopCap's past few releases Peggle and Plants... Read more