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Read More »Google Lively cut short
Google has announced that it will be closing Google Lively at the end of the year, four and a half months after the service launched. The social networking space, set up in July this year, gave users the chance to interact while expressing themselves online in new ways”. Google confessed …
Read More »YouTube inks game link deal
YouTube will start ‘selling’ games via links from its popular video game-relevant videos to online stores. The Google-owned site will split revenue with the likes Amazon and iTunes on sales of music, films, TV shows, video games, books, concert tickets and other media-related products that are bought by those following …
Read More »Google unveils AdSense for games
Web giant Google has finally unveiled its long-awaited bid to enter the in-game advertising sector, revealing it is putting a big focus of the strategy on casual games. In a post on the blog for the firm’s web advertising team Adsense, Google reps said that it is targeting web games …
Read More »Google finally unveils in-game ad strategy
Web giant reveals in-game marketing solution; MochiAds deal underscores casual emphasis
Read More »Android builds momentum
Google releases v1.0 SDK; Gameloft, glu and Namco Bandai pledge support
Read More »We’re too busy to think about acquisition, says Valve
Lombardi reiterates 'rumour' status of Google buyout gossip as studio works to finish Left4Dead
Read More »Valve calls Google story ‘100% rumour’
Valve’s Doug Lombardi has described today’s rumourmongering that the studio is to be bought by Google as "100% rumour". Speaking to Spong, the marketing boss’ description of the story is the first comment made by the studio. Google has described the story as "rumour and speculation", although clearly both have …
Read More »Valve on Google ‘acquisition’: “100% rumour”
Developer shrugs off speculation that it is about to be bought by web giant
Read More »Google refuses to rule out Valve takeover
Google has refused to rule out the possibility that it is to acquire Half Life developer Valve. When questioned by MCV by the roaring rumour that it is to announce the buyout of the Steam parent company this week at Austin GDC, A Google spokesperson told us: We do not …
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