Google Hires Developer Advocate For Games, Is Google Games Next?

Google just recently hired Mark DeLoura, a games industry veteran, as its “Developer Advocate for Games”. In this role, his responsibility is likely to help work with games companies and games teams that create games for the Android and OpenSocial platforms, although a formal job description has not been released. Could this lead to Google partnering with game teams to publish premiere games?

Mark is talking about his move over at his blog, and seems excited about the potential to engage in the games business as a representative of Google and their platforms.