Social Networking for Games has Arrived
The success of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has spurred a landslide of niche social network development throughout the online world. Many categories of interests, such as dogs and shoes and music, have seen their own online networking platform come to life through the power of Web 2.0 technologies. Now it’s time for video games .
Today, GarageGames has released, to the world, the new video game social networking site, Great Games Experiment (http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com). This site boasts a current user base approaching tens of thousands and tons of games.
The idea of a social networking site for video games is by no means revolutionary; however, the adjoining of all video games (both indie and mainstream) in one central location, with a democracy of users has never before been implemented. This is more than database of video games. On GreatGamesExperiment.com, a user can rate, review, play, download, search for, browse for, [keep inserting verbs here] any type of video game imaginable. Users can also interact with each other on a multitude of levels. Create your own internal network within the walls of GreatGamesExperiment.com by making friends with, tagging, kudo-ing, commenting on other users throughout the site. Users can also band together to form groups.
The main objectives of the site are as follows:
- Provide to game fans and developers an opportunity to share and promote their own games!
- Help gamers and developers network with each other!
- Help people discover new games! Many of which they may have never heard!
- Make it easy to download and play games in one place.
Also, check out the cool badges you can get on the site and post around the web:
If you enjoy video games, this is the site for you.
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March 3rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Great Games Experiment looks like it might be a good social network. I’ve been using RecommendzIt.com (http://recommendzit.com) and gamefray.com (http://gamefray.com) which are other gaming social networks and I am looking forward to comparing GGE with them.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Sean! Wow this has came a long way. I’ve been meaning to check it out. Keep up the good work.
May 27th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for sharing! I don’t use myspace right now, i use friendster.
However, I will take a look at those site. cool..
June 7th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
[...] Those of you who haven’t created your account on Great Games Experiment yet have now been rewarded. We are running a promotion to give a free game to everybody who signs up for the next week! Hurry up and get started! Great Games Experiment (GGE) will be giving a free game to each new user that creates an account between June 7-14. The week-long giveaway will allow users to choose from 48 games* in the GarageGames Game Store. So if you haven’t yet created an account on GGE, now would be the time to do it! [...]