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Google Eyeballing Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the world-of-searchcraft dept.

An anonymous reader tips news of a Google job listing indicating the company's interest in building a gaming division. "The broad job posting requires someone to lead the new venture from designing the user experience, working on partnerships with developers and working with the gaming community." According to the posting, they are "looking for a strategic, technical and game-loving Product Manager to drive Google's gaming strategy. You will design strategies for game distribution and discovery, player identity, game mechanics, and more."

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  1. Street view by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google street view would make a great MMO, particularly with augumented reality through android phones.

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  2. Re:What are the odds? by pinkushun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Offline web applications is part of the HTML5 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html

  3. GGT by pinkushun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My Predictions:
    - a Google Gaming Toolkit for making games on their platform.
    - host your games on their infrastructure just like they do with Google App Engine.
    - social networking built into games linked via Buzz, Wave, and your Google account.
    - Profit!