Google has confirmed the existence of Google Games as a feature of Google+ in one of their help articles. Slash Gear reports that Google will provide APIs to third-party developers, and speculates that the game stream could collect Android game info and act as an online leaderboard. It appears that the games will be kept out of the main Google+ stream, as the help page says “if you’re looking for updates shared from games, check out your Games stream.”

TechCrunch reports that Yvo Schaap has found, buried in the Google+ source code, a link for a Google Games logo and API endpoints that indicate that Google Games will be a social gaming service. Schaap found references to “game friends” and an ability within Games to “post to stream.” Google is known to have invested more than $100 million in gaming giant Zynga in 2010, and also acquired gaming company Slide last year as well.