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WorldWinner Inc. and PopCap Games Inc. announced that the companies have entered an agreement which calls for WorldWinner to be the exclusive provider of cash competitions on PopCap.com within North America. WorldWinner has developed a co-branded site, available via the Cash tab on PopCap.com. WorldWinner's cash competition versions of PopCap titles such as Bejeweled(R) 2, Zuma(TM) and Bookworm(TM), as well as a portfolio of more than 25 other popular games, are now available via the new co-branded area of PopCap's Website within North America. These cash tournaments offer customers an enjoyable combination of the instant fun for which PopCap games are known and a competitive atmosphere created by WorldWinner's innovative site experience. This agreement ... extends a licensing partnership in which WorldWinner has developed and hosts cash versions of several popular PopCap titles, including Bejeweled 2, Big Money(TM), Bookworm, Chuzzle(TM), Dynomite!(TM) and Zuma. Under the terms of the expanded agreement, WorldWinner will develop and host cash competition versions of one or more additional PopCap titles slated for commercial release in 2008.
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PopCap Games ( www.popcap.com) is the leading multi-platform provider of “casual games” — fun, easy-to-learn, captivating computer games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of over 120 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C. and Dublin. Its games have been downloaded more than 200 million times by consumers worldwide, and its flagship title, Bejeweled®, has sold more than 10 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap’s games are played on the Web, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod and more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap is the only casual games developer with leading market share across all major sales channels, including Web portals, retail stores, mobile operators and developers, and game device manufacturers.
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PopCap Games (Bejeweled, Zuma) has signed a deal to distribute their line of casual titles through Valve Software's Steam network. Starting August 30th, 17 games will be available for free trial or paid download on Steam. This may become a significant financial boon to Valve, since many of the products on Steam at the moment are games or mods already connected with Valve's first-person shooters. Independent offerings include the RTS game Darwinia and the World War II FPS Red Orchestra.
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PopCap Games Inc., a leader in the $1.5 billion dollar online casual gaming industry, offers both online and downloadable games and has undergone rapid growth since its founding in 2000. Its site has served over 12 billion hours of gameplay since 2001, and its wildly successful and award-winning Bejeweled® game has been downloaded more than 150 million times. All told, more than 350,000,000 copies of PopCap's games have been downloaded from the PopCap site alone. The games are ... offered on partner sites including MSN® Games, Yahoo!®, RealOne™ Arcade, and Shockwave.com™. In 2006, consumers spent $75 million on PopCap's games, and that figure is projected to grow to approximately $120 million in 2007.
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PopCap Games (www.popcap.com) ist der führende Anbieter von Multiplattform-"Casual Games", d.h. leicht zu spielenden und doch absolut unterhaltsamen und einnehmenden Spielen für jedes Alter und Geschlecht. PopCap ist in Seattle (US-Bundesstaat Washington) ansässig, wurde im Jahre 2000 gegründet und beschäftigt in seinen Niederlassungen in Seattle, San Francisco und Dublin über 110 Mitarbeiter. Die Spiele von PopCap wurden über 200 Millionen Mal von Spielern aus aller Welt heruntergeladen und Bejeweled(R), der erfolgreichste Spieletitel des Unternehmens, ist über 10 Millionen Mal über alle Plattformen hinweg verkauft worden. PopCap-Spiele sind u.a. für das Internet, den PC, den Mac, das Mobiltelefon, PalmOS und Windows Mobile PDAs, Xbox Live Arcade, iPods, im Flugzeug führender Fluggesellschaften sowie als Rubbel-Lottoschein und mehr verfügbar.
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PopCap Games was founded by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka in 2000. They wanted to create games, firstly by learning from other Internet gaming sites. Their first game was Bejeweled, a huge-hit gem-swapping game, supported on all major platforms and it was awarded by Computer Gaming World Hall Of Fame in 2002.
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