We’re Peggle fanatics here at theBBPS.  The first title made our top ten lists last year.  The second took up countless hours of our lives this past summer.  Now, courtesy of Valve, the coveted Peggle Extreme is available free of charge on Steam. 

Originally a Steam pre-order bonus for The Orange Box, Peggle Extreme blends the cuteness of Peggle with the uber-violence of Valve (hence Team Fortress 2’s Pyro toasting up Jimmy Lightning pictured above).

If you don’t know the joy that is Peggle, now’s the time to find out. 

A few months back when we first caught wind of Peggle Nights we couldn’t help but notice that it looked an awful lot like Peggle.  The screens made it appear as though it were more evolution than revolution, and now that it’s here it seems as though our speculation was exactly right. 

But does it matter?  Did Peggle Nights really need to make bold changes from it’s predecessor to be worth your time?  Or is there enough to love with new boards, humor and challenges to make Nights worth a gander to Peggle veterans?  Hit the jump to find out.

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Not that that’s a bad thing. As anyone who was reading our site late last year will attest, Peggle ran through this place like crack. Like — good crack. Peggle was the single most important thing to happen to the casual games industry since Bejeweled, so it was hard to not stand up and take notice.

PopCap has been pretty tight-lipped about Peggle Nights, but from what we can tell from these screenshots it looks more like an expansion pack then a full-on sequel. That’s fine by us. More Peggle equals more gooder.

No guaranteed date for this one yet, but PopCap representive Garth Chouteau assures me that the release “is currently slated to happen in the 9/18 range, give or take a couple of days.”