Google Splashes into Social Gaming; Acquires Slide for $182M

Google has continued its social gaming acquisitions by reportedly agreeing to purchase Slide for $182 million in a deal to be announced Friday. This news follows soon after their investment in Zynga of $200 million, which has been rumored to be the first step towards some sort of Google games platform. At this year’s Casual Connect, I had the opportunity to talk with the Google Chrome App Store product managers and there’s no doubt that they had a new vision for how social games could be played through their browser.