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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[EA, Wooga pulling games from Google Plus]]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center; "> <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/14/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/" target="_self"><img alt="EA, Wooga pulling games from Google Plus" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/06/gplus-desert.jpg" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 530px; height: 162px; " /></a></div>PopCap and Wooga-developed games will disappear from Google's social media platform, Google+.  Wooga shut down <em>Monster World</em> prior to May 1, issuing their own "<a href="http://support.wooga.com/goodbye/">goodbye</a>" to Google+.  Electronic Arts will remove <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/game/bejeweled-blitz"><em>Bejeweled Blitz</em></a> from the service on Monday in order to "redeploy our resources to other adaptations of Bejeweled," a PopCap spokesman told <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120614/game-developers-already-abandoning-googles-social-network/">All Things D</a>.<br /><br />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 <em>Bubble Island</em> and <em>Diamond Dash</em> from Google+ on July 1.<br /><br />PopCap's spokesman added that "Google is a valuable gaming partner for PopCap and EA, and we'll continue to develop for Google platforms."<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/">EA, Wooga pulling games from Google Plus</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/20260305/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/ea-wooga-pulling-games-from-google-plus/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>Bejeweled</category><category>Bejeweled-Blitz</category><category>bubble-island</category><category>diamond-dash</category><category>EA</category><category>Electronic-Arts</category><category>google-plus</category><category>monster-world</category><category>pc</category><category>PopCap</category><category>wooga</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Suszek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:30:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>