TL;DR
- Google revealed late final 12 months they had been engaged on a Google Play Video games app for Home windows PCs.
- Beginning tomorrow, the app will likely be in open beta for Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Australia.
- Along with increasing the beta, Google additionally lowered the minimal required PC specs for utilizing Google Play Video games.
Beginning at this time, Google Play Video games for PC will enter open beta and be accessible for Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Australia.
Again in late 2021, Google introduced that it was engaged on bringing Android video games to PC by means of its Google Play Video games app. After launching a beta, the app was solely accessible for sure areas — Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan — and also you needed to be a part of a waitlist to achieve entry.
Whereas the beta continues to be solely accessible in sure areas, Google finally expanded entry to Thailand and Australia. Now, Google is taking its subsequent step towards full launch by eliminating the boundaries on what number of gamers can use the service in these areas.
When you reside in Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, or Australia, you possibly can obtain the app from the Google Play Video games touchdown web page.
Along with opening the beta to extra gamers, Google has additionally made the app extra accessible by decreasing the PC specs required to make use of the platform.
In line with Google, the Google Play Video games app not calls for a gaming class GPU. All you’ll want is an built-in GPU (e.g. Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU or comparable). The CPU necessities have been lowered as properly, solely demanding 4 bodily cores as an alternative of eight logical cores. And at last, the quantity of house wanted has been halved from 20GB to 10GB of SSD storage.
Sadly, there’s no phrase but on when Google plans to do a full launch of the Google Play Video games app. Nonetheless, Google claims it is going to proceed so as to add new options and hearken to suggestions from builders and gamers.