Google officially announced the winding down of its cloud gaming initiative Stadia late last year, and pulled the plug earlier
late last year, and pulled the plug earlier in January. Though it looks like the internet search giant may still have some gaming aspirations still, even if via another subsidiary under its massive umbrella. That subsidiary looks to be YouTube, surprisingly, with workers being invited to test what is called Playables.
The Wall Street Journal reports that YouTube sent an email to employees looking for volunteers to test this Playables product. It has been described as something that gives users access to games on mobile devices or desktop computers alike, and can easily be played and shared between each other. One game that was made available for testing was Stack Bounce, which has players try to smash layers of bricks with a bouncing ball.
All in all, Playables on YouTube doesn’t look like much of a successor to what Google Stadia, if it’s even a fair comparison to start with. The only surviving element looks to be the bit where the games can be easily joined and shared, straight from a video. And on that note, adding games to a video platform seems counterintuitive, as it requires the splitting the viewer’s attention. The report does cite a spokesperson as saying that the company has “nothing to announce right now”.
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