![]() ![]() On Thursday, Google said it would offer 16 games from third party developers on Google+, including Zynga Poker and the popular Angry Birds game. Liew, who has invested in social game companies including Playdom, which was acquired by the Walt Disney Co last year, was commenting on Google’s games announcement. “It turns out that people like to play games, and it’s core to the social networking use case,” said Jeremy Liew, a partner at venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. With the two Web giants competing to attract users to their respective online services, the dueling social gaming announcements underscored what could emerge as a key battleground between the two companies. The world’s largest Internet social network moved on Thursday to shore up support with game developers such as Zynga, who provide one of Facebook’s biggest draws, on the same day that Google Inc introduced games on its recently-launched social network. People walk past a logo next to the main entrance of the Google building in Zurich March 9, 2011.
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