Android Games Are Coming to Windows PCs in 2022

Mobile players who hate being tied to their smartphones simply received an early vacation current. Google is bringing Android video games from Google Play to Windows laptops, PCs, and tablets.

Google introduced a standalone Google Play Games launcher that lets players play cell titles on Windows PCs at The Game Show Awards on Thursday. The upcoming app will permit gamers to shut out of their sport on one system and resume enjoying the place they left off on one other. This means you can swap between a Chromebook, Windows PC, and Android telephone with out dropping saved knowledge.

The app, which is being constructed and distributed by Google, runs video games domestically in your system, no cloud streaming required. So far, Google has solely teased the service in a quick video clip, so some vital particulars haven’t been revealed. We do, nonetheless, know it’s set to reach someday in 2022.

Google clarified to Android Authority that this app doesn’t symbolize a partnership between Google and Microsoft, however that the search big is engaged on Google Play Games independently. This is critical as a result of Microsoft partnered with Amazon, not Google, earlier this 12 months to convey Android apps to Windows 11 PCs.

“Google Play has helped billions of people find and play their favorite games across multiple platforms, including on mobile, tablets and ChromeOS,” Games on Google Play Product Director Greg Hartrell advised GameSpot. “Starting in 2022, this Google-built product brings the best of Google Play Games to more laptops and desktops, and we are thrilled to expand our platform for players to enjoy their favorite Android games even more.”

Bringing apps and video games to extra platforms is all the time factor, however I gained’t be offered till Google reveals its plans to make sure these video games each look and play nice throughout a various vary of Windows methods.