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PopCap Acquires Sprout Games

Casual game developer PopCap Games, creator of top downloadable titles including Bejeweled and Bookworm, has announced an agreement to acquire fellow Seattl...

Simon Carless, Blogger

June 30, 2005

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Casual game developer PopCap Games, creator of top downloadable titles including Bejeweled and Bookworm, has announced an agreement to acquire fellow Seattle company Sprout Games. Sprout is a developer of a number of other leading casual PC titles, including the immensely popular Feeding Frenzy, which has been downloaded more than 10 million times, and has also been converted for the Xbox Live Arcade service. According to an official company statement, the acquisition is expected to serve PopCap's overall growth strategy in building expertise and maintaining a low-overhead production schedule, while also providing Sprout Games with increased resources. "We're extremely excited to join PopCap Games," said James Gwertzman, managing director of Sprout Games. "We've admired every game they've ever built. When designing our own games we often asked ourselves, 'What would PopCap do?' It's a huge honor to become part of this fantastic team." Following the acquisition, the Sprout team will move into the Seattle-based PopCap offices, consolidating operations with the PopCap development team. Gwertzman will become the Director of Business Development for PopCap.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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