In a keynote address at the annual Google for Game Developers Summit, google said is Google Play game service for PC, which brings Android games to Windows users, will be coming to Japan and other European markets and will be getting new titles and tools for game developers. Of note, the service in the coming months will add several popular games, including Garena Free Fire, Ludo King (a popular board game in India), and MapleStory M. Meanwhile, Google Play is introducing early access to machine translation on the Play Console that will allow game developers to translate their game into more than eight languages in minutes for free, the company said.
released to beta testing in January 2022, Google Play Games is designed to expand the reach of Android gaming by enabling consumers to play mobile titles on their Windows computers, as well as supported platforms such as Android and ChromeOS mobile devices and tablets. With the service, gamers can pick up where they left off on one device when switching to another, something many Apple-centric game titles already offer when users switch between iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, for example.
Initially available in foreign markets such as Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, the service expanded to the US and other countries in November and is now available in 13 markets, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Now, Google says the service will be coming to Japan and several European countries in the coming months.
It also features a range of features aimed at game developers, including an emulator that offers a developer-focused build of
Google Play Games that is designed for the debugging and compilation process. This tool allows developers to deploy games directly, even by downloading APKs via ADB command, and allows developers to use Android Studio to adjust graphics and hardware settings to validate different player configurations. (Developers will need to register here for first expressing interest in the service.)
Google explains that its partnership with Intel allows it to make it easier for developers to join Google Play Games on PC with their existing mobile builds. If the mobile game already works fine on desktop, they can now request to join the service.
The company also publishes a new launch checklist to help game developers verify that they have completed all the necessary steps
before submitting your build for approval, and added more vital Android gaming metrics. The latter includes recently released frame rate metrics on the Play Console, or via the Developer Reporting API, which allow developers to check if their games deliver at least 30 frames per second, the technical quality required for the Google Play service. Games for PC. Other technical updates aimed at performance and user acquisition were also rolled out, in addition to the new machine translation feature that will use Google Translate and Transformers-based language models to translate games in more than eight languages, including Simplified Chinese and the Japanese.
Google has also teased the upcoming release of next-gen Gamer IDs that will keep a user’s Gamer ID consistent across platforms for any given game, while also allowing them to be unique across different games. This feature, powered by Play Games Services, is coming later this year.
Still considered a beta version, Google Play Games for PC requires users to be running Windows 10 on a PC with 10 GB of available storage on a solid-state drive (SSD), with an Intel UHD Graphics 630 or similar, 4-core GPU physical CPU and 8 GB of RAM. The company has yet to share an official release date for a public release.
