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I've heard too little about Google 'games' to know if I even care. I don't need access to flash games (Kongregate/New Grounds is plenty and Facebook serves the

I've heard too little about Google 'games' to know if I even care. I don't need access to flash games (Kongregate/New Grounds is plenty and Facebook serves the rest), I don't need access to purchasable games (GameStop or Amazon fills this, depending on whether I want to get off my ass, Steam does the rest for me). Unless Google is actually developing new games I see little use for Google 'games'. Even great implementation is worth shit. Kongregate has great implementation, well developed achievements system and a great chat system built in. How is google going to top that when Buzz failed? Right now all I see is Google Games being a failure by producing no new games and providing no innovation.

dirtyaura 16y ago
From the outside, it seems that Google is trying to eat a piece from Facebook's lunch, not to innovate per se. There are reports that say that a group of people joined Facebook just to play games (and they see everything else that FB offers as 'frivolous' extra, go figure). If Google can tap into that market, it could finally get Google Checkout to fly, which is a big step for Google.