Archives Tag: Google AdScape
Google’s Next Move? Games Maybe?
Google is to [Internet] software as Apple is to hardware. In that pretext, I say Google is to software because Google really does not have any hardware products except for Google Mini for Enterprise. Google Games So why would Google be interested in gaming? More advertising space. We can clearly get past the point that [...]
Full StoryGoogle to Push In-Game Advertising by Year’s End
Reported on Thursday, Google will be launching their in-game advertising efforts by the end of the month. Google is doing this by their recently acquired in-game advertising technology through AdScape. It is still unclear which games will be supported, but I’m really hoping that Counter-Strike is one of them. Yeah, I know, sad, but hey, I still play it! It keeps me busy at night sometimes and keeps me entertained. I still play Starcraft too (not Starcraft 2 — yet, but too 
If Google can pull of in-game advertising in Counter-Strike, I might just start up running servers again and see how far it can go as an additional revenue stream.
