{"id":13452,"date":"2011-08-12T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"google-gets-angry-birds-dragon-age-legends-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13452-google-gets-angry-birds-dragon-age-legends-more","title":{"rendered":"Google+ gets Angry Birds, Dragon Age Legends, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was really only a matter of time until Google+ started adding games, and that time is now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we&#8217;re adding games to Google+,&#8221; senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra writes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/games-in-google-fun-that-fits-your.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google blog.<\/a> &#8220;With the Google+ project, we want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the web. But sharing is about much more than just conversations. The experiences we have together are just as important to our relationships.<br \/>&#8220;We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also adds, significantly, that &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re not interested in games, it&rsquo;s easy to ignore them. Your stream will remain focused on conversations with the people you care about.&rdquo; Because honestly, there&rsquo;s nothing much worse than those stupid Mafia Wars notifications stuffing up your news feed.<\/p>\n<p>Google is currently rolling the service out to users, with just a few titles currently featured, including Angry Birds, Dragon Age Legends, Bejeweled Blitz, Zynga Poker, Diamond Dash, and some others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16470-Games-for-Google-Plus-launched?p=494086#post494086\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Google+ games<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More games for your social networking pleasure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}