Tech Crunch have been reporting that Google has purchased social games developer Slide, who have the operation of games and applications for amicable networking sites like Facebook as well as MySpace.

We have listened formerly which Google invested $100 million in amicable gaming site Zynga who makes popular games like Farmville for Facebook.

Both Google as well as Slide have nonetheless to endorse a understanding, although Tech Crunch have pronounced which Google paid around $182 million for Slide. Google have been patently relocating their strategy to take upon Facebook brazen, and obviously see amicable gaming as the really critical part of their plan.

It will be engaging to see what Google come up with, and whether it will be great sufficient to opposition Facebook or if it will go the way of Google Wave.