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Google Adds Games To Google+

Posted by Soulskill on from the tic-tac-toe-better-have-an-i'm-feeling-lucky-button dept.

derGoldstein writes with this quote from the official Google blog: "Today we're adding games to Google+. ... We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life ... When you're ready to play, the Games page is waiting — click the games button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates from your circles, browse the invites you've received and check out games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear. So you can comfortably share your latest high score — your circles will only see the updates when they're interested in playing games too."

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  1. Re:Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Circles, privacy options, hangouts, and keeping games/apps out of the normal social areas.

    How is Google+ an exact copy of Facebook with less features again?

  2. Google Apps? by richy+freeway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about just getting the hell on with it and adding support for Google Apps users? Once again we're left lagging behind!

  3. Re:Farmville+ by rbrausse · · Score: 4, Funny

    brausse@auedv23:~$ echo $DEITY

    brausse@auedv23:~$

    Nietzsche was right :)

  4. Re:Google+ by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the other end it's also not that complicated to block those updates.

    No it's not simple. I mostly access my social networks from my phone, and the mobile app doesn't have an X. So I get constantly annoyed by this crap and it forces me to go and log in on my PC to disable it. Then another game takes over. It's a never ending battle to keep facebook usable.

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    Write boring code, not shiny code!
  5. The beginning of the end by broothal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sweet Jebus - that was the reason I LEFT facebook. To get rid of that crap.

    Oh well - it was fun while it lasted. IRC is still my favorite social network

    1. Re:The beginning of the end by Tridus · · Score: 5, Informative

      On the upside, this time the games spam is in its own tab. If you just read the stream, games don't appear in it.

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      -- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
  6. Re:Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Separate profiles? I don't think you understand how relationships work. The status of my various contacts is _not_ static: co-workers became friends, friendships get broken, etc. Separate profiles are totally unable to cope with that seamlessly and most importantly invisibly to the contact in question. My contacts do not need to know how much information I'm giving them / keeping from them.