Google Play Games from Google has announced beta testing in new regions. Today the platform is available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. Residents of these countries can download the beta version on a PC to play mobile games.

Today, mobile gamers resort to third-party emulators to play games on PC; Google Play Games allows players to do so directly from the Play Store.

Google Play Games is a PC application that can search for, download, and run Android mobile games on Windows. Users use the keyboard and mouse to play games and earn Google Play Points. Progress is synced across all devices. The Google Play Games app is not yet available for macOS.

Side note: Google report on in-game advertising.

With Google Play Points, players earn points for every purchase, including in-app content and subscriptions. You can accumulate and use points on your computer the same way on your mobile device.

Source: Google Play Games

Over the past few months, the catalogue has been updated with games such as 1945 Air Force, Asphalt 9: Legends, Blade Idle, Botworld Adventure, Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact 3rd, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Cookie Run: Kingdom, Arknights, Evony: The King’s Return, Horizon Chase — Arcade Racing, Pirates of the Caribbean: ToW, Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade, Ronin: The Last Samurai, State of Survival: Zombie War, Summoners War and more. More than 40 games are available, and the list is constantly growing.

To support Google Play Games computer must meet the following minimum requirements:

Windows 10 version 2004;
Solid State Drive (SSD);
Gaming graphics processor;
Eight logical CPU cores;
8 GB of RAM;
20 GB of free space;
Hardware virtualization enabled.

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