MySpace launches Games Lab, aims to tackle social gaming

Like a pokey little puppy, social network MySpace has announced that it’s starting up a Games Lab to try and beef up the gaming space on the site. A pilot program has been underway for a while now with TheBroth and Meez, and MySpace has now announced Playdom as a partner in building the platform. Rival network Facebook has been growing in leaps and bounds, especially in the gaming space, but now MySpace wants to leapfrog its success on the music side into social games.

Will it work? There’s a lot of money still to be made in social games, and there’s no reason why MySpace couldn’t grab its own piece of the pie. But MySpace is certainly coming late to the game, so if it can garner an audience, it’ll likely be a fraction of what Facebook already has running.

MySpace launches Games Lab, aims to tackle social gaming originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 25 May 2010 03:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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