Penny Arcade announced today that in partnership with Hothead Games it is launching Greenhouse. The new site will work as a way to sell downloadable games on PC, Mac and Linux based systems. Penny Arcade's RPG Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One will be the first game available on the service.

"We developed Greenhouse along with Hothead originally because we needed a way to deliver our game to you guys," said Mike 'Gabe' Krahulik on a news post on Penny Arcade's website. "What we needed was a platform agnostic digital distibution portal. Once it was done we realized that it could actually be super useful to other independent developers. At first Greenhouse will be the place to get our game but eventually we'd like to use it as a way of promoting great independent games that might otherwise slide under the radar. Like PAX and Child's Play and all the other stuff we do we're starting out simple. We've got big ideas though and I'm excited about building Greenhouse into something really special."