This just in, PopCap Games and Valve have partnered up to give the casual gamer something to smile about. Coming soon to a Steam client near you, every person will be able to play a number of different PopCap games all from one location.
"The addition of PopCap Games' expansive library of leading casual games is an important step for the growth of Steam and direct distribution channels," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "The benefits of Steam will now be provided to a much wider group of games and game customers. PopCap games by themselves are larger by an order of magnitude than the next-gen consoles online gaming services."I take it these games will take the place of the former games found on the Friends network such as checkers?
"We know that our games appeal to all gamers, and not just some narrow 'puzzle game' niche," said Bryan Fiete, PopCap's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. "This is a great opportunity to put our content in front of a large and passionate audience. 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."
Initially, 17 of PopCap's products will be made available via Steam on August 30, 2006. Keeping with PopCap tradition, each PopCap game offered via Steam will be available for a free trial period as well as for purchase. And PopCap collection packages will also be offered.
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