{"id":3167,"date":"2011-08-12T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2012-07-17T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T06:07:24","slug":"casual-war-google-games-vs-ea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/gaming\/xbox\/casual-war-google-games-vs-ea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual War — Google Games vs. EA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the official announcement of games for Google+<\/a> right on the heels of EA’s $1.3 billion purchase of PopCap<\/a>, it seems that a quiet war is slowly brewing between superpowers. A war that seems almost nonexistent on the outside, but has a dark and violent underside. So, exactly like the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Who are the superpowers? Because most games are available cross-platform, it seems that it’s becoming more about the companies that own the marketplace of those games: Valve, Microsoft, Facebook, and now Google.<\/p>\n

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The launch games for Google+<\/p><\/div>\n

What are their strengths? They’re all fairly easy platforms to jump onto, and all of them allow you to play with friends online. Valve’s Steam<\/a> and Microsoft’s Xbox Live<\/a> offer more hardcore games alongside the more casual indie ones, but developers are working to add games to Facebook<\/a> in the very near future. On the other side, if EA can spend $1.3 billion to buy casual giant PopCap<\/a>, I’m sure they can afford to build their own platform soon or beef up PopCap’s. And even though both sides have ground-breaking psychic programs in place, the United States has a significantly larger network of undercover spies, thanks to the McCarthyism purge. Wait. I mean, what about Google+?<\/p>\n

Games for Google+ feels like the lovechild of a threesome: it has the friend-to-friend casual play of Facebook games, the polish and appeal of PopCap games, and the board game style of Pogo<\/a>. It doesn’t seem to have the hardcore games that Xbox Live and Steam offer, but I know I’m personally looking forward to even more competition.<\/p>\n

Which company will be victorious and become the dominant world power<\/span> place to play games? Well, like any other capitalist endeavor, your money will decide. Or Microsoft’s will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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