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Valve, creators of the Steam broadband gaming platform, and PopCap Games, a leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced an agreement to deliver PopCap's games via Steam.

PopCap's titles such as Bejeweled and Zuma are benchmarks of the casual games industry, generating over 175 million downloads and three billion player minutes per month. Steam, meanwhile, is the full-featured broadband platform for the delivery and management of games and digital content allowing users to purchase, download, install and play blockbuster games such as Half Life 2 and Counter-Strike directly, bypassing the whole retail boxed copy purchase process. Each Steam game also comes with a free, try-before-you-buy demo feature. Steam boasts over 10 million customers and has generate over six billion player minutes per month.

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.

More information at www.steamgames.com.