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Google buys mobile game dev SocialDeck
In their own words, SocialDeck are "super excited to announce that someone found our social games as fun as you have - in this case, that "someone" is Google." They'll even have a nice group of friends with common interests to play with now that they're part of the Google collective.
Earlier this month, Google acquired Jambool -- who created the Social Gold virtual currency platform. Back in April they picked up Lab Pixies, who specialize in social and casual gaming widgets. And let's not forget Google is also a major investor in casual game maker Zynga -- the demons behind the game you love to hate, Farmville.
What does it all mean? Clearly Google sees gaming (and social gaming in particular) to be an area worth getting involved in. With Android picking up momentum and Google TV and Chrome OS both on the way, there are going to be a whole lot more Google hardware users looking to kill some time destroying pixelated zombies or spelling their way to a high score.
That means money spent on games, on virtual goods, and, of course, delicious, delicious ad impressions.
[via Inside Social Games]
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Subscribe to commentsiphone warriorAug 30th 2010 5:41PM
Microsoft envy is hitting google pretty hard. they can keep buying small time crap companies, nothing will rival Microsoft's first party studio with multi-billion dollar franchises like Halo.The company claims it "enables simultaneous game play across multiple mobile devices and social networks."In essence, it sounds like Google is extremely jealous of Microsoft's gaming power. SocialDeck's tech sounds like a poor-mans version of Xbox Live or Bing Games ( http://www.bing.com/games ) , without the good games of course. Sounds riveting and exciting, right? This is what happens when you enter the phone market and Microsoft pulls out xbox Live, and Google is there fiddling their thumbs with nothing to compete against it. Google then panics and goes on a shopping spree in hopes of hacking something together quick. They will end up with a horrid game library, and buggy platform.
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MikeAug 30th 2010 5:49PM
Is there a website out there similar to socialdeck, but playable on your computer?