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06-17-2012, 05:30 PM
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PopCap and Wooga-developed games will disappear from Google's social media platform, Google+. Wooga shut down Monster World prior to May 1, issuing their own "goodbye (http://support.wooga.com/goodbye/)" to Google+. Electronic Arts will remove Bejeweled Blitz (http://www.joystiq.com/game/bejeweled-blitz) from the service on Monday in order to "redeploy our resources to other adaptations of Bejeweled," a PopCap spokesman told All Things D (http://allthingsd.com/20120614/game-developers-already-abandoning-googles-social-network/).
A Wooga customer care representative said the company "decided to remove certain games from Google+ because we have a much larger following on Facebook and they are active users." Wooga will remove Bubble Island and Diamond Dash from Google+ on July 1.
PopCap's spokesman added that "Google is a valuable gaming partner for PopCap and EA, and we'll continue to develop for Google platforms."http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)EA, Wooga pulling games from Google Plus (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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PopCap and Wooga-developed games will disappear from Google's social media platform, Google+. Wooga shut down Monster World prior to May 1, issuing their own "goodbye (http://support.wooga.com/goodbye/)" to Google+. Electronic Arts will remove Bejeweled Blitz (http://www.joystiq.com/game/bejeweled-blitz) from the service on Monday in order to "redeploy our resources to other adaptations of Bejeweled," a PopCap spokesman told All Things D (http://allthingsd.com/20120614/game-developers-already-abandoning-googles-social-network/).
A Wooga customer care representative said the company "decided to remove certain games from Google+ because we have a much larger following on Facebook and they are active users." Wooga will remove Bubble Island and Diamond Dash from Google+ on July 1.
PopCap's spokesman added that "Google is a valuable gaming partner for PopCap and EA, and we'll continue to develop for Google platforms."http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)EA, Wooga pulling games from Google Plus (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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