'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey' Now Available on Steam
-The incredible modern adventure game to feature on Valve's pioneering digital delivery system-
Durham, USA - January 12, 2007 - Funcom and Valve announce an agreement to deliver the multi award winning 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey' through Steam, Valve's pioneering broadband platform for delivery of games and digital content.
With a host of amazing review scores, including a perfect five out of five from Gamespy and a tremendous word of mouth, 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey' has continued to garner critical and public acclaim. The game has recently received several prestigious Game of the Year awards and over a dozen nominations and awards in categories ranging from best overall game (for both PC and Xbox) to 'Best Story', 'Best Music', 'Best New Character' and others from world-leading websites like IGN, Gamespot, Gamespy and Gametrailers. Prior to release the game won more than fifteen 'Best of E3' awards.
"Bringing 'Dreamfall' to Steam is a great opportunity for us to bring this incredible game to one of the most exciting online gaming communities around," said Trond Arne Aas, CEO of Funcom. "Both Funcom and Valve have been pioneers in the delivery of games, so Steam and 'Dreamfall' are a perfect match. For an independent developer and publisher like us it's great to bring our game to a service with over 10 million users totally passionate about unique and innovative titles."
"It's an honor to offer 2006's Adventure Game of the Year via Steam," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "Funcom has created an absolute classic with Dreamfall, and we're looking forward to working with them and highlighting their success as we deliver this title to the millions connected to Steam."
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is available now via Steam. As a special two-week promotion to celebrate Dreamfall's achievements, it will be made available for a limited-time price of $29.95, a $10 savings from its regular price of $39.95.
For more information or to download this new offer please visit www.steamgames.com. Visit www.dreamfall.com for more information on one of the best adventure titles ever released.
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ABOUT FUNCOM - Funcom is an independent developer and publisher of online games for PC, consoles and mobile platforms. Funcom has provided outstanding entertainment since 1993 and continues to expand its track-record of more than twenty released games. Recent titles include 'The Longest Journey', 'Anarchy Online' and 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'. For corporate information please visit www.funcom.com. For information about Funcom games visit www.anarchy-online.com , www.dreamfall.com or www.ageofconan.com . Funcom is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker FUNCOM.
ABOUT VALVE - Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company's portfolio of entertainment properties includes Half-Life, Counter-StrikeTM, Day of Defeat, and Team Fortress. Valve's catalog of products accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and over 80% of the PC online action market. In addition, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies, such as the Source game engine and Steam, a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content.
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