Social Gaming Roundup: EA's Origin Platform, CivWorld, Google+, & More

EA Reveals More About Origin — At EA’s Summer Showcase event yesterday, the company revealed new features for its upcoming Origin social gaming network. The main highlight is cross-platform interaction for Facebook, iOS, and Android where users can import Facebook and Twitter friends and host universal leaderboards. Players can also launch games from within Origin and keep tabs on friends’ current games.

Also at the showcase, Electronic Arts Interactive Senior VP Chip Lange demoed features for the upcoming FIFA 12 on iOS, which will allow users to link up two iPhone 4 devices as controllers, and then link those to an iPad via Bluetooth.

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