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Finally we can share with all of you the joy that we’ve been building over the past few months.  Gamasutra sat down with American and got to the bottom of the story.

Here are the highlights:  Spicy Horse signed a deal with PopCap Games and Vickers Venture Partners to the tune of $3 million USD in order to develop online free-to-play games.  You probably already know PopCap very well from their more famous titles – Bejeweled, Peggle, Zuma’s Revenge… They specialize more in the “non-evil” casual and puzzle games thus far.  American is suggesting moving in a different direction:

‘The sense is that while a lot of social games have built their empires on 2D, there will be a moment where the genre has to shift into 3D, and we want to start that process now,’ McGee told Gamasutra via phone from his Shanghai HQ.

Spicy Horse’s direction is ‘definitely going to be about free-to-play online multiplayer games,’ which McGee is ‘much more excited about’ than packaged console titles, he said. Spicy Horse wants to ‘prove that experience can translate to 3D, and maintain that casual audience — so we want to be there as that wave starts to come up.’

What this means for us is that we will see many more Spicy Horse titles over the next couple of years.  What will those games look like?  Only time will tell, but the one thing can say is that it’s already looking mighty good.

Read the rest of the article here on Gamasutra.