Game On For Google Plus — And Facebook

Games including CityVille, Zoo World, Monster World, and Mystery Manor will be among the first to undergo the transition that will be most obvious to users — a much bigger, full-screen gaming window.

The bookmarks section was also revamped so that the apps a user accesses most appear atop newly organized sections, and a favorites category was added.

Also new is a gaming activity stream alongside the apps, which updates users on games their friends are playing and their progress.

The gaming canvas page now features bookmarks on the top right part of the page, making it easier for users to toggle between games and access the apps they use most.

Here’s how the improvements are described in a post on the Facebook Blog by “ninja of product design” Jared Morgenstern:

Meanwhile, rival social network Google Plus introduced a slate of games, including Angry Birds, Bejeweled Blitz, Bubble Island, City of Wonder, Collapse! Blast, Crime City, Diamond Dash, Dragon Age Legends, Dragons of Atlantis, Edge World, Flood-It, Monster World, Sudoku, Wild Ones, Zombie Lane, and Zynga Poker.

And here’s the highlights from the  Google Blog post about the game stream.

Today we’re adding games to Google Plus. With the Google Plus Project , we want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the Web. But sharing is about more than just conversations. The experiences we have together are just as important to our relationships. We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life.

That means giving you control over when you see games, how you play them, and with whom you share your experiences. Games in Google Plus are there when you want them and gone when you don’t.

When you’re ready to play, the Games page is waiting — click the games button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates from your circles, browse the invites you’ve received, and check out games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear. So you can comfortably share your latest high score — your circles will only see the updates when they’re interested in playing games, too.

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Is one ugly game. The Borbs in particular are just entirely hideous – the stuff of nightmares. The game forces players to look upon their frightening visages at the title screen, during story scenes, and upon completing each level.

The actual backgrounds and map graphics look pretty bad too… Everything seems to have been rendered on 3D before having most of its colors removed, which never ever produces pleasing results. t boggles the mind how an artistic team could fail so hard.

I might as well mention here that the music is mostly comprised of a single short, obnoxiously twangy guitar loop. At least it can be turned off! In short, to have any hope of enjoying Bubble Town 2 ’s horrific art, let’s discuss its gameplay. This game is a match-three puzzler.  A ceiling slowly pushes a large stack of bubbles, I mean Borbs from the top of the screen toward the bottom. If they reach the Danger Zone at the bottom, the player fails the level. That’s where the player’s cannon, located in the center of the Danger Zone, comes into play. The cannon fires Borbs up at the impending stack. If a fired Borb comes into contact with two or more Borbs of the same color, it destroys them.