PopCap Games Partners Up With Valve For Steam Distribution
August 23rd, 2006 by Kevin Cortez in Articles, Business
Casual game developer, PopCap Games (Bejeweled, Zuma) and Valve has teamed up together to bring PopCap Games titles to Steam. Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, says the team up “is an important step for the growth of Steam and direct distribution channels.”
“The benefits of Steam will now be provided to a much wider group of games and game customers”, he went on. “PopCap games by themselves are larger by an order of magnitude than the next-gen consoles online gaming services.”
According to a statement by PopCap, the company has gotten “175 million downloads and three billion player minutes per month.” There will be 17 PopCap titles at launch on August 30 for a free trial period and purchase. PopCap collections will also be available.
Tags: Articles, Business“We’re thrilled to be the first casual game publisher to distribute our games via this new channel; we’re all Steam users here in the studio, and it’s going to be very cool to see our own titles up alongside such awesome content as Half-Life 2.”
