In case you missed the social-media train last night, you should know Google+ has finally added social-games on its features which you can access unobtrusively with your circles. But the real kicker part comes after, when Facebook adds a bevy of features to its gaming platform (such as Game Ticker, expandable screen mode, etc) just a few hours after G’s announcement. Likewise, you can say these two events are nothing more than a coincidence but we all know, there’s a reason for everything…right?
Going back on Google Plus Games, its still launching in phases — meaning — some users might not see it but its developers promised everyone should be able to access it “soon”. Interestingly, eventhough the service has only gone for the past 24 hours, Google’s SVP Engineer Vic Gundotra already poked Facebook in the face by announcing “[Google+ Games] won’t be appearing in everyone’s stream” in which we all know games on Facebook are always there on your most recent streams.
The list of games for G+ are still few but very solid spearheaded by Rovio’s Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Bubble Island, Dragon Age Legends, Sudoku, Zynga Poker and 10 more. Also, you can also notice the company is inviting interested developers to create apps on G+ which I expect to blow in the next quarter.
What does it mean?
For the past few months, we’re predicting Google to introduce social-games through its new social network and we believe this is just the tip of the iceberg of the many more exciting features the company will add to its service in the coming months. Hopefully, the buzz for Google+ will continue which was waning a little bit for the past few weeks in terms of growth.
If you’ll look at the top social-networking sites today: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+, it appears G+ and FB are the only sites giving social-games on its services, which we all know was monopolized by Facebook before. Likewise, this means that Google is serious enough to be one of the best social-networking sites in the web – something that Facebook should be anticipating as early as today.
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