#Pop cap bookworm game trial

After these acquisitions, the PopCap logo was rebranded, dropping the 'Games' portion. One week prior, the company acquired the Chicago-based development house Retro64, founded by Mike Boeh, which is best known for their retro-arcade action and puzzle titles. PopCap began another round of expansion in July 2007 by buying other casual game developers including the creators of an online consumer portal, SpinTop Games.

#Pop cap bookworm game trial

In keeping with PopCap tradition, each PopCap game offered via Steam is available for a free trial period as well as for purchase. Beginning on August 30, 2006, 17 of PopCap's products became available via Steam. On August 22, 2006, it was announced that PopCap Games had entered into an agreement with Valve Corporation to deliver PopCap's games via Steam, Valve's content delivery system. In early 2006, PopCap International was opened, based in Dublin, Ireland, working on product localization, mobile games development, marketing, sales and business development. The Sprout team helped PopCap to make a sequel to the hit game, Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown, with Gwertzman becoming the Director of Business Development at PopCap. Sprout Games is the creator of the game Feeding Frenzy. The company expanded in 2005 with the acquisition of Sprout Games, a Seattle-based casual games developer company like PopCap Games, founded by James Gwertzman.

Their first game was Bejeweled, a huge-hit gem-swapping game, which was supported on all major platforms and awarded by Computer Gaming World Hall Of Fame in 2002. They wanted to create games, primarily by learning from other Internet gaming sites. PopCap Games was founded by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka in 2000.