Palo Alto, Calif. 10/30/2007 - Game du Jour, the only “one deal a day” website for casual PC games, announces it has signed up as an Affiliate to distribute games from Macrovision Corporation’s games network. Under the terms of the agreement, Game du Jour customers will have access to Macrovision’s extensive catalog of games as well as one great deal a day on some of the most popular casual games available.
Game du Jour (www.gamedujour.com) is an online store offering one deal and one deal only per day on popular downloadable casual games for Windows PCs. The agreement with Macrovision will enable Game du Jour to deliver to its customers a daily dose of the highest quality casual games available on the market, by drawing from a broad and rich catalog of games. Within each game’s 24 hour lifecycle on GameDuJour.com, customers will be able to view game details, read reviews, download trial versions and complete their purchases at deeply discounted prices.
"Game du Jour brings a unique offering to the casual games market and now provides gamers with greater access to a wider variety of games," said Michael Buchheim, executive vice president and general manager of the Distribution and Commerce Business Unit at Macrovision. "We’re pleased to have Game du Jour join our affiliate network."
“Since we launched Game du Jour late last year, developing partnerships with the premier developers and distributors of top tier casual games has been our highest priority,” said Fabienne Piernot, co-founder of Game du Jour. “With Macrovision helping to power our website, our customers will have more fun and more reasons to return as they have more choices and the assurance of even higher quality games on a daily basis at GameDuJour.com.”
About Game du Jour:
Game du Jour, launched in December 2006, is the first company in the world to offer one deal a day in the indie and casual PC games market. While the company aims to be best known for its daily deals, Game du Jour is at its core a marketing partner to game developers, giving those companies the opportunity for a rush of sales and heightened brand exposure during their products’ 24-hour lifecycle at GameDuJour.com. For more information about Game du Jour, visit www.GameDuJour.com/about-us
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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