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Wednesday 7 November 2012

Google Games

Now with its own social networking space, Google will eventually offer social gaming to Google+.
"Games" (social gaming) had 16 games when launched on August 11, 2011, which has since been expanded to 44. Unlike Facebook games, Google+ games are located under a games tab, which gives games less visibility, and have notifications that are separate from the rest of a user's notifications. A social network game is a type of online game that is played through social networks, and typically features multiplayer and asynchronous gameplay mechanics. Social network games are most often implemented as browser games, but can also be implemented on other platforms such as mobile devices. They are amongst the most popular games played in the world, with several products with tens of millions of players. (Lil) Green Patch, Happy Farm, Farm Town, YoVille and Mob Wars were some of the first successful games of this genre. FrontierVille, CityVille, Gardens of Time and The Sims Social are more recent examples of very popular social network games. While they share many aspects of traditional video games, social network games often employ additional ones that make them distinct. Traditionally they are oriented to be casual games. Companies that make social network games include market leader Zynga, Wooga, 5 Minutes, Playfish, Playdom, Kabam, Crowdstar, RockYou, Booyah and Row Sham Bow, Inc