{"id":6704,"date":"2010-07-12T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"google-gearing-up-for-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6704-google-gearing-up-for-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Google gearing up for gaming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If reports from a variety of gaming sites around the world, including <a href=\"http:\/\/games.ign.com\/articles\/110\/1105398p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>, are to be believed, then Google is planning on launching a social-gaming service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The speculation comes after it was revealed that Google invested between $100 million and $200 million into Zynga &ndash; a casual game developer responsible for the likes of Farmville, Mafia Wars and loads more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that these investments are paving the way for the launch of &ldquo;Google Games&rdquo; sometime next year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zynga is estimated to have raked in $350 million in the first half of this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Games may become a reality in 2011<\/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-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","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=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}