Google's newest gaming play may very well be inside YouTube

Google Stadia is useless, however Google’s ambitions within the gaming realm definitely are usually not. Now the corporate is seemingly testing video games throughout the YouTube web site.

In accordance a Wall Road Journal report, the corporate is engaged on a “playables” characteristic for the video sharing portal on iOS and Android gadgets.

The report says they’ll be arcade-style video games fairly than pushing again into offering AAA titles over the cloud. The Journal says the main focus might be on video games “that may be simply performed and shared between customers”

One of many video games will reportedly be “Stack Bounce” which requires video games to smash bricks by bouncing a ball. So yeah, fairly fundamental, and apparently inbuilt HTML5. A Google spokesperson stated the corporate typically experiments, however didn’t verify the characteristic is launching any time quickly.

“Gaming has lengthy been a spotlight at YouTube,” the assertion stated (by way of TechCrunch). “We’re all the time experimenting with new options, however don’t have anything to announce proper now.”

Google is in search of methods to broaden the YouTube proposition as the corporate offers with falling promoting revenues. YouTube additionally added podcasts just lately.

Whether or not Google could have success with including video games to YouTube stays to be seen. The Play Retailer continues to be the go-to for the overwhelming majority of informal gaming experiences on Android, whereas Stadia was an enormous flop when Google started pondering exterior that field.

It shut down in December final yr with Google refunding customers for all {hardware} and software program purchases and unlocking Bluetooth connectivity throughout the controllers so they may keep away from being landfill fodder.