PopCap Buys Retro64

By: Derek Yu

On: July 12th, 2007

Gamasutra reports that Pop Cap has bought casual developer Retro64, turning it into one of its satellite studios. In other words, Retro64 has been assimilated into the core and the buzzing of the hive mind just got a little stronger…

Retro64 is a development studio / casual portal that recently developed the casual game Venice, which was published by Pop Cap, and also hosts the Indiegamer forums as well as Game Tunnel.

What we have here is definitely a “casual bloc” forming… a “Gem Curtain” behind which millions of creative minds will die under colorful, gem-toed boots of match 3 oppression. Indie gaming cold war for the win!

(Source: Indygamer)

Posted in Casual, Community, Developers | Tags: PopCap

Lorne T Whiting

Viva la resistance!
Let’s swarm the Popcap offices, and then hide by the doorway, and as soon as someone walks out one of us runs up and kicks him in the nards.
PoV

Michael Boeh sells out. :P :)

Congratz Mike. I hope you got a nice paycheque for your IP’s.
fuck

Well Derek, you jumping over to review games for GameTunnel doesn’t exactly help your own standings.
Lorne T Whiting

Reviewing games for GameTunnel is a bit different from selling all your work to heartless money grubbers ;)
PoV

Man, you can buy heart with that kind of money. 2 hearts even. ;)
haowan

let’s make it three hearts. MATCH
Derek

I’ll one up ya, “fuck:” I actually did a lil’ bit of contract art for Pop Cap’s SF studio last year! No, it wasn’t for a match 3 (sadly). I don’t know if the game will get released, but it was actually a nifty project.

And I don’t think it compromises my “standings,” whatever the fuck those are, one bit!
PoV

http://junk.sykhronics.com/misc/match3.jpg
rinkuhero

I didn’t know Retro64 owned Game Tunnel — I thought Russ Carrol (Reflexive Arcade) owned it.
PoV

Retro64 hosts it, like they host IndieGamer. Russ does own GameTunnel. It’s his baby.
moi

It’s funny to note that a couple weeks ago there was a long (boring) thread on indiegamer about that popcap guy who was attacking the clones industry (sic transit gloria mundi).
And I was very surprised to see all the IG bigwigs come to the defense of popcap.

But now I understand better.
http://coolhunter.wordpress.com Levi

I swear to God, PopCap is the indie incarnate of EA.
Dan MacDonald

*repositions his big wig to bring out the gray highlights*
PHeMoX

Loool, now all we need is a counterweight, an indie game company with a *an even better match3* !!

(I mean for God’s sake, there’s more to indie games than … bejewelded :p )
Brak

Is that a game about welding?