As of in the present day, Google Play Games for PC will enter open beta in 5 international locations. The beta will now be obtainable for Windows customers in South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Australia – that is in line with a tweet from Google Play.

Google Play Games for PC, initially solely obtainable earlier this yr in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, will enable Windows customers to play a few of the hottest Android-based video games and sync their progress with their Android gadgets.

This open beta is coming after Google introduced its plan to convey Android video games to PC by means of its Google Play Games app again in December of final yr.

Google mentioned in a weblog submit, “In the previous few months, we now have greater than doubled our Google Play Games catalogue to 50+ titles, which might be performed on Windows PCs through a standalone utility constructed by Google.

“Our catalogue contains most of the hottest cell video games on this planet together with Summoners War, Cookie Run: Kingdom, Last Fortress: Underground, and Top War. Together, these video games are performed by a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of gamers globally.”

More accessible to avid gamers

Google additionally introduced that it is going to be reducing the PC specs required to make use of the platform, making these upcoming video games extra accessible to gamers.

The business giants claimed that the Google Play Games app won’t demand a gaming class GPU, that means customers will now solely want an built-in GPU – like an Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU.

Furthermore, Google acknowledged it lowered the CPU necessities from the earlier eight logical cores to the extra consumer accessible 4 bodily cores. The firm additionally lowered the quantity of storage required by half to 10GB as an alternative of 20GB.

There’s nonetheless extra to come back from Google. Indian gaming and animation firm 7Seas Entertainment has introduced a brand new platform, obtainable as an utility on Google Play known as Gamer Shorts.

Time will inform how all these tasks will probably be affected by Google’s Ad coverage taking impact subsequent month.