social games

Google's social network, Google+, recently sent tremors through the gaming world with the announcement that it would be launching a new social games service.

The line was out the door Tuesday night at the new Seattle office of Zynga, the red hot San Francisco social games company.

Zynga called it a launch party, but it was really a recruiting event, the latest in a series of meet-and-greets hosted by California companies tapping into Seattle's deep reservoir of tech talent.

Ask any social media maven if he’s into FarmVille and he’ll likely slap you in the Facebook at the mere mention of virtual agriculture.

Yet Zynga, purveyors of such feed-clogging digital crack, just boasted of its more than 45 million daily active users. Somebody around here is playing FarmVille.

Yes, I’m looking at you, Earl.

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