Posts Tagged ‘Google Games’

Jamie Rosenberg, Google’s Director of Digital Content, recently posted on Google’s official blog about the new Google Play integrated service.  It allows you to store your books, movies, apps and games on the cloud, and then lets you access them from whatever Google device you desire.  This is a smart move that not only helps remove the frustration of copying files from one place to another, but also helps Google future-proof against privacy — once users are using Cloud systems more often it will be easier for Google to ensure that you’re using paid-for apps and movies.

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A few days ago, mobile/social gaming crew Digital Chocolate (headed by the original founder of EA Trip Hawkins) released Gangs of Boomtown exclusively to Google+.  According to our sister sites Inside Social Games, the game is “a blend of quests, multiplayer quickdraw contests and citybuilding mechanics” and seems to follow the same visual style as other Digital Chocolate games like Zombie Lane and Millionaire City.

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Game developers, please take this very short survey on the future of Google+ games, which we’ll be using for Social Times’ next report on the subject. How important an opportunity is Google+ games for you? Will it become a competitor against Facebook and Apple’s iOS? Has Google’s 5% commission promotional offer caused you to seriously investigate Google+ as a platform? Click here to answer those questions and more. Early next month, we’ll be sharing the results here, and on SocialTimes Pro. Thanks!

The author of this post, Wagner James Au, is an analyst for Social Times Pro.

if Google couldn’t make any more investments into the gaming world, their venture capital arm, Google Ventures, has invested a reported $100 million into mobile games maker ngmoco.  This comes soon after their strategic investment into Zynga, their near $200 million acquisition of Slide and recent announcements to hire all kinds of different gaming posts.  The latest investment into ngmoco is slightly different in that it comes from Google Ventures rather than Google itself, but as TechCrunch points out, this probably won’t change much in terms of the new Google-ngmoco relationship: ngmoco will be feeling the pressure to make sure they port their games to Android.

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What are the implications of the world’s largest search and video provider – Google -  putting a healthy investment into Zynga, the world’s largest social games maker?  We’ll get a chance to find out in the coming months if the recently reported TechCrunch rumor that Google is about to invest up to $200 million into Zynga is true.  We take a look at the situation and analyze the implications after the jump.

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A really interesting game idea (that I once hoped to make) flew across my desk this week and I thought I’d write it up for our readers.  The game is called That’s So Query and it uses Google Suggest to create a game where players attempt to complete Google searches and find the most popular search term.  For example, the game will ask you “who is…”, and you have to predict what’s the most popular Google search term that ends that term.  In this example, it is “who is the richest person in the world”.  Read more about the application below.

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