May 20th, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough Yesterday it was Best Buy and Target, today it’s Walmart and Google. Apparently there’s money in this whole gaming thing the kids are in to…
Walmart is getting serious about diving in to game sales, launching their new Gamecenter website earlier today.
Gamecenter serves as an online store, and also offers game previews, developer interviews, and publisher promotions. Walmart is also going to allow customers to trade is video games and consoles online in exchange for prepaid Walmart Visa cards. Walmart will pay all associated shipping costs for those exchanges.
Google has announced the Chrome Web Store, which will be opened later this year.
While Chrome users will be able to create shortcuts for apps access and the like, since everything sold on the store will consist of general web applications, all will run just fine for anyone using a different OS.
Some of the icons noticeable in the example picture of Web Store products are Lego Star Wars and Plants vs. Zombies. Google has made moves to get involved in gaming before this, and they’ve clearly decided that the distribution side is the way to go.
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