Google+ Gaming Confirmed; "Games Stream"

[dgstorm]

It appears that Google's own help pages have now unofficially confirmed a story we reported to you a few days ago. Google plans to create a social-gaming aspect to Google+, and it will be called "Games Stream". There are no real details yet, in fact the only thing that showed up is on the help pages and it reads, ”If you’re looking for updates shared from games, check out your Games Stream”. The "Game Stream" part of the statement is a link, but only lands on a 404 error page.

Interestingly, there is some speculation regarding how Google will handle this new gaming social network aspect to Google+. One theory posits that they will take a traditional approach, and that back in 2010, Google covertly invested heavily in Zynga the makers of Farmville. If true, they could potentially rip Farmville away from Facebook, leaving them sucking wind. More than likely, Google wouldn't go that far however, as that could undermine and fracture a loyal fan-base for the game. More than likely, they may find a way for the Zynga game to coexist on Google+. The second theory is that somehow Google will integrate Android gaming within Google+, and make the social service some type of leader-board setup for Android gamins statistics. This would be a great idea as an add-on, and more than likely the reality will probably be some combination of all of the above.

During the writing if this article, the Google+ help page reference has been changed and no longer shows the "Game Stream" reference. Perhaps, it is something they are working on, or perhaps they just want to tease us. Regardless, we have a pic above from when it was up.

Source: SlashGear

[Martin030908]

... as long as I can simply turn off this stream I'll be happy. I never wanna see Farmville mentioned again, lol.

[Bazar6]

FarmVille killed fbook in my opinion... But it would be cool to integrate into games, like Openfeint does on some games.

[nmarnier]

...mafia wars aswell...

[Memige]

Sweet, let the development begin!

[fish1552]

That's one of the reasons I hate FB. Tired of the games. So I hope there is a way to never see game posts.

> > > Xoomin' < < <

[masze]

That's one of the reasons I hate FB. Tired of the games. So I hope there is a way to never see game posts.

> > > Xoomin' < < <

Totaly agree...

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[Dude Random21]

IMHO just the fact that they are calling it game stream tells me that it will either be handled as a separate stream completely or at least it will be filterable from the rest of your stream. Which is something I think will make everyone happy.

[Techaholic]

When Google Wave was alive and well the only thing that people wanted to do there was play Sudoku. I sincerely hope that G+ will not go down that path.
If I have to block people as I have done on Facebook for asking my to find them a watering can then so be it but surely these people have more to offer.
Games are games and social networking is social networking. Please Google - don't do it.

[Mountainbikermark]

... as long as I can simply turn off this stream I'll be happy. I never wanna see Farmville mentioned again, lol.

I pretty much stopped using Facebook over the game nonsense but I'm also annoyed at the plethora of 80s big haired band video links that keep showing up. At least on Twitter it just shows up as a url only when my "friends" seem to be stuck in 1983

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