The Wall Street Journalreports that Google is developing a Facebook rival. The initial reason for the service is to provide a space for people to play social games. The WSJ article says Google is talking to social game developers.
Google has been in discussions with top developers to offer their games on a new service it is building, these people said. Those developers include Playdom Inc., Electronic Arts Inc.'s Playfish and Zynga Game Network Inc.—a company in which Google recently took a financial stake, these people said.
The social game arena is very hot. MTV recently acquired Social Express and plans to develop social games. Disney just bought social game company Playdom. GameStop also recently acquired Kongregate.com. All this deals happened in the past week.
The WSJ article says Google's rumored social games hub is going to part of a broader social-networking service that could challenge Facebook, but there aren't many details and Google isn't talking.
The Wall Street Journal 
