{"id":52837,"date":"2012-06-18T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52837"},"modified":"2012-06-18T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T07:04:49","slug":"google-losing-social-games-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/52837-google-losing-social-games-fast.html","title":{"rendered":"Google+ losing social games fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> had previously announced that it would add a range of games to its social network offering Google+, another move to bolster its position against rival, <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Google\u2019s gaming plans suffered a major setback after two game makers began pulling titles from the site.<\/p>\n<p>PopCap games pulled its popular Bejeweled franchise, after which German games maker, Wooga pulled three of its titles.<\/p>\n<p>Google+ has shown impressive user growth since its launch; however, recent studies have shown that the site is a \u201cghost town\u201d with very little user activity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/06\/15\/popcap-google-plus-games-canceled-wooga\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Political speech a target for take-downs: Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/52827-political-speech-a-target-for-take-downs-google.html\">Political speech a target for take-downs: Google<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Google, Amazon lead charge for Web real estate\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/52589-google-amazon-lead-charge-for-web-real-estate.html\">Google, Amazon lead charge for Web real estate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Google to launch Nexus tablet in June?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/52405-google-to-launch-nexus-tablet-in-june.html\">Google to launch Nexus tablet in June?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s social network is losing online games from multiple publishers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48578,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,167,2416,12607],"class_list":["post-52837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-popcap","tag-wooga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52839,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52837\/revisions\/52839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}