Android Games Are Coming To Windows PCs In 2022

Google is bringing Android games from Google Play to Windows laptops, PCs, and tablets, the company announced on Thursday. Gizmodo reports: Google announced a standalone Google Play Games launcher that lets gamers play mobile titles on Windows PCs at The Game Show Awards on Thursday. The upcoming app will allow players to close out of their game on one device and resume playing where they left off on another. This means you could switch between a Chromebook, Windows PC, and Android phone without losing saved data. The app, which is being built and distributed by Google, runs games locally on your system, no cloud streaming required. So far, Google has only teased the service in a brief video clip, so some important details haven't been revealed. We do, however, know it is set to arrive sometime in 2022.

This product already exists...

[leonbev]

It's called Bluestacks, and it's been around for years now. Why is this Slashdot headline worthy?

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Transfarring... reinvented

[martynhare]

Hideo Kojima was ahead of his time, clearly. Also, Steamworks and Microsoft's UWP and even Apple CloudKit offers this; pause, save your game, boot up your other device, launch the game and choose Continue. The game resumes from where it left off. No whacky reverse-engineered APIs or virtualisation layers required.

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[Excelcia]

Because it's not Bluestacks. Bluestacks isn't a system that allows you to pause a game and resume it on another device.

1) Any Android emulator which suspends to disk can be made to cross-device pause/resume. It's actually not hard. So, yes... yes it is Bluestacks, or Nox, or a host of others.
2) Who really cares about cross-device pause/resume?

Adding in a useless feature which is already doable then saying here is this amazing capability that's completely new is a very Microsoft thing to do.

Yawn

[Voyager529]

Bluestacks has been around forever, and allows all the Google things to sync. MSI rebadged it and shipped it with their laptops. Windows 11 is enabling Android apps to run in Windows natively. The resume-progress part is, for good or for ill, largely mitigated by how many games sync their progress with an account the developer hosts. The one mobile game I got into for a while - Star Trek Timelines - already had a Steam version, and the account I made allowed my progress to move between my phone and my lapto

Oh great .. more shitty mobile RMT games

[UnknownSoldier]

n/t

BFW

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

See above

Why not bring it to Linux?

[TheMESMERIC]

I know there is a way, but not at all - an easy way.
Would love to play SimCity Buildit on my Slackware.

But why?

[fleeped]

Who's the target audience? Who, in what situation, said "Damn I'm done in the toilet, I need to stop playing now on the mobile and continue playing on the desktop"? How are they dealing with multi-finger gestures? Android has crap games riddled with IAP, privacy violations, dubious monetisation models. I expect this goes into Google Graveyard by 2023

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[Rockoon]

The target audience is Blizzard "You all have phones, right?" Entertainment.

Linux version?

[Lavandera]

Could they release Linux version?

Should be easier than Windows.

Re: Oh goodie

[Malays2 bowman]

There are a lot of good and addictive games for Android, though none of them were made with a Hollywood movie budget like console/PC AAA titles are.

  You just have to find them amongst the endless crap Android games.

Ads!

[fluffernutter]

Just when I was thinking there wasn't enough ads in my PC games. I really miss watching a 30 second ad between every single level.

Android apps would be more useful.

[couchslug]

Such as Waze on larger displays....

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