Here’s what you need to know for Friday, Dec. 13

In Polygon’s latest opinion piece, contributor Dennis Scimeca argues that some players and even developer EA DICE misunderstand the first-person shooter franchise.

We ventured behind closed doors at Peggle 2 developer PopCap Games to learn about the game’s development.

YouTube parent company Google defended its recent decision to issue thousands of copyright infringement notices to users displaying video game content. In response, Deep Silver said it “has no intention of preventing players, who like to create gaming content on YouTube using our games, from doing so.”