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If you're like me and tired of all the 'build-a-city' games, then you'll be glad to know that Gardens of Time , a hidden object game is now available at Google+! Of course it still retains some of the basic elements of a social game. You spend energy on playing different scenes and you need to pimp your garden to gain more 'reputation' to unlock places. Even if you repeatedly play a scene, there are one or two new items to find so you probably won't get that bored right away. With everything said, I'm pretty much happy with this addition. Looking forward to more games to be added soon!

I was very surprised when I opened Zombie Lane today as there are a lot of updates. There are loads of new quests, new weapons, new zombies, new locations, even the town in covered in snow! Here's a list of the updates ( taken from the official Zombie Lane forum at Digital Chocolate ): New Features • A new Adventure Area, Crash Site, is introduced o When the player reaches level 20, a new mission, CONSPIRACY THEORY I is unlocked o After this mission is completed, the Crash Site adventure area can be accessed by clicking on the green strip on the left side of the house o The Crash Site contains a total of 26 missions including the CONSPIRACY THEORY I intro mission • Two new zombies are introduced o Hazmat Zombie o 4 health o Chance to drop Batteries, Oxygen Tanks or Hazardous Chemicals o Secret Agent Zombie o 6 health o Chance to drop Batteries, Black Suitcases or Smartphones • Exception: the Secret Agent Zombies spawned on the player’s own gamefield (for the mission ...

Bug Village Gol Mania A lot of things happened this week. Google Plus added two more games in their arsenal, Bug Village and Gol Mania. Also, Google rolled out their new UI this week. Not everybody is using the new interface yet, as Google plans to slowly make the new UI available to everyone. Ok! I'll start dissecting everything now. Bug Village is a casual city building game, where you get to build and manage a colony of bugs. What really impressed me was the 3d graphics, which looks really sophisticated. You do have to download a small file (around 20mb) when you first try out the game, but it's worth it. Gol Mania is a soccer game, where you get to play with other users in real time. I'm not a big sports fan, so I'm not really excited to try out the game. Plus, I had trouble connecting to the game because of my 'slow connection', and was advised to close other tabs or stop downloading. While it's reasonable, I didn't have any trouble playi...

When Google+ started to offer games, one feature that I would really like for them to add was to see game notifications and game stream updates separately for each game. After a while, it was tiring trying to sift through the game stream to click notifications for the games that I play, since it is inevitable to get notifications for games that I don't play that other people in my circles do. So I was really thankful when someone in my circle shared this Chrome extension, G+ Game Companion . It truly made my gaming experience in Google+ easier. I have been using it for a while now, and I can't even remember when I installed it. Moments ago, I was curious on how many users this Chrome extension has, and was really surprised to see only around 2000 users. Believe me when I say this Chrome extension is really, really handy. Of course you'll need to use Google Chrome browser in order to install this extension. G+ Game Companion Chrome Extension on the Chrome Web Store Do...

The folks over at Google Plus rolled out the new 'Pages' feature earlier this week aimed for brands and businesses (similar to Facebook's Fan Pages). I think it's a pretty interesting move since G+ has a lot of cool features that business owners and brands that can take advantage of. Circles can provide an easier way to promote something to a specific group of customers and Hangouts allows a different sort of interactivity with the customers. It still needs a bit of tweaking, but this new feature definitely has promise. Check out this blogs G+ Page below. Wouldn't hurt to +1 my page and add me to your circles :D Neknek. Kenken. Official Google Plus Page

About a week before my birthday, I got an invite to join Google+. I signed up for it, but I admit I wasn't on the site often because not a lot of people that I personally know are using it. I had just started going frequently on the site when they launched games, but it didn't took me long to realize how much I actually love using Google+. Games You know how your news feed on Facebook tends to be cluttered with games/app stories from your friends? I've blocked a lot of apps to minimize the clutter on my news feed, but the games/apps that I use still take much space on the news feed. On Google+, game posts are found under the games page, so your main stream isn't bombarded with game feeds. Circles Sure you can categorize your 'friends' in other social networking sites but Google+ made sharing content and adding people into different circles for its users such a breeze. Adding people into a circle can be done with a single click. And when you want to add a pe...

blurred out certain elements So I'm currently using the new Timeline profile on Facebook . Click here to see a bigger picture of the new Facebook profile (though I had to cut the length of the image). Note that it doesn't look very attractive, but that's probably because the pictures on my wall sucks. I've seen it live on other profiles, and they look great. I like it. A lot of people are tired of the constant updates/revamps in Facebook and are thinking of stopping the use of the service but the new Timeline has the opposite effect on me. This is actually the first time I'm enticed with the idea of using Facebook. As you can see from my wall posts above, I mainly use Facebook just for the games. I don't really share or do anything too personal on Facebook. The new Timeline profile feels like a scrapbook and will make backtracking posts easier now (as opposed to clicking "Older Posts" since the months/years are archived on the right side of ...