EA Sports has jumped on the free online social gaming train today that Facebook has been capitalizing on for awhile now, and the results are, well, pretty impressive. The game is Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, and while it may seem like a rehash of other accessible online flash golf games, this one clearly stands out from the rest. However, instead of giving this game a review proper, it seems more appropriate to address as a development, a new finding in the evolution of online social gaming.
Electronic Arts Inc.(EA) today unveiled a slate of titles that are now available in the Google Chrome Web Store. At a Google Chrome event, EA showcased its popular gaming destination, Pogo, which leveraged the Google Web Toolkit to transform Poppit! into an HTML5 title.
At a press event today, Google unveiled the details of its Chrome Web Store, an HTML5-based app marketplace that operates on top of the Chrome web browser, including games from Electronic Arts and numerous other developers.
I like google chrome and may check this out if they bring any worthy software to the table.
So, while 1UP recommends this to anyone who plays golf video games, or used to, this is, in a way, a very well-looked-after port. Hopefully next year they cut the greens fees in half, and widen the avatar selection.
