AGL 38.54 Increased By ▲ 0.97 (2.58%)
AIRLINK 129.50 Decreased By ▼ -3.00 (-2.26%)
BOP 5.61 Decreased By ▼ -0.03 (-0.53%)
CNERGY 3.86 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (2.39%)
DCL 8.73 Decreased By ▼ -0.14 (-1.58%)
DFML 41.76 Increased By ▲ 0.76 (1.85%)
DGKC 88.30 Decreased By ▼ -1.86 (-2.06%)
FCCL 35.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-0.23%)
FFBL 67.35 Increased By ▲ 0.85 (1.28%)
FFL 10.61 Increased By ▲ 0.46 (4.53%)
HUBC 108.76 Increased By ▲ 2.36 (2.22%)
HUMNL 14.66 Increased By ▲ 1.26 (9.4%)
KEL 4.75 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-2.26%)
KOSM 6.95 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (1.46%)
MLCF 41.65 Decreased By ▼ -0.15 (-0.36%)
NBP 59.60 Increased By ▲ 1.02 (1.74%)
OGDC 183.00 Increased By ▲ 1.75 (0.97%)
PAEL 26.25 Increased By ▲ 0.55 (2.14%)
PIBTL 5.97 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (2.4%)
PPL 146.70 Decreased By ▼ -1.70 (-1.15%)
PRL 23.61 Increased By ▲ 0.39 (1.68%)
PTC 16.56 Increased By ▲ 1.32 (8.66%)
SEARL 68.30 Decreased By ▼ -0.49 (-0.71%)
TELE 7.23 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.14%)
TOMCL 35.95 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-0.14%)
TPLP 7.85 Increased By ▲ 0.45 (6.08%)
TREET 14.20 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.28%)
TRG 50.45 Decreased By ▼ -0.40 (-0.79%)
UNITY 26.75 Increased By ▲ 0.35 (1.33%)
WTL 1.21 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
BR100 9,806 Increased By 37.8 (0.39%)
BR30 29,678 Increased By 278.1 (0.95%)
KSE100 92,304 Increased By 366.3 (0.4%)
KSE30 28,840 Increased By 96.6 (0.34%)

Google got its game on late on Wednesday, launching videogame-themed wallpaper for customised home pages and providing a glimpse at online play making its way to the website. The California Internet titan arranged for scenes from an array of blockbuster videogame titles to be used as backdrops to personalise iGoogle home pages that people use to help organise online lives.
Google vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer unveiled the themes at a warehouse party on the opening night of a Game Developers Conference exposition in San Francisco. "iGoogle is about allowing people to express their personalities and there is no better way for that than videogames," Mayer said.
"Not only is the artwork unbelievably good, there is a real emotional connection with people." Nine major videogame studios contributed themes for iGoogle, with titles including "Zelda," "World of Warcraft," "Spore," and "Guitar Hero."
Outside software developers taking part in an Open Social project are creating videogames that people will be able to install on iGoogle pages and play with friends. IGoogle versions of "Mafia Wars" and Chess.com applications popular on social networking websites such as Facebook were among the games being demonstrated.
"We are looking at putting games into iGoogle pages," said Mayer, who confided she has played "Guitar Hero" and sports games but is a fan of rock-dropping titles such as "Tetris" and "Bejeweled." Outside game developers showing off iGoogle titles at gathering said they expected their applications to be added to the California firms custom home pages by the end of the year. Themes for iGoogle home pages include the works of renowned artists and "causes" such as Conservation International and Doctors Without Borders.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2009

Comments

Comments are closed.