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Google has its proverbial fingers in a lot of pies, but one space they have yet to really investigate is gaming. If a new job posting is to be taken seriously, The Big G is about to change that. The company is looking for a product manager for a product called Games at Google. Can’t really get more clear than that.
There aren’t a lot of solid details in the job posting, just that the applicant has to be (and we’re paraphrasing) a genius with an advanced degree and technical expertise. The position is said to include, “game distribution and discovery, player identity, game mechanics, and more.” The term social gaming is also used.
There are a few way this could go. Google may be developing an Android alternative to Apple’s Game Center and the cross-platform Open Feint. Similarly, they could be developing a gaming centric back end for the Chrome web store. What do you thing Google is up to?
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seanmao858
June 29, 2011 at 12:53pm
I believe this is a very smart move. I believe the majority of comupter users have average computers that run onboard video instead of a powerful discrete graphics card. Especially with Sandy Bridge and AMD APUs rolling out, Google making games is smart. Although there is a hardcore gaming community, they only make up a a small percentage of computer gamers. I am a hardcore gamer with a kick@ss computer build but I wouldn't knock google for making games on chrome web store.
I played angry birds on the chrome web browser. It rocks for me because I don't have much time to game some days. If I want to kill 10 minutes, I just load up a game from the chrome web store and have at it. If I have Starcraft 2 up, I'm guaranteed to be on for more than 30min so I don't even touch it sometimes.
tornato7
June 22, 2011 at 3:55pm
Gaming and stuff on the chrome web store isnt really that great. Mobile gaming is great, but when im on my computer i'm not going to play angry birds because I have Crysis and Starcraft and other games that browser based games cant come close to. So, this better be for android.
