Fri. 12/10 – Google Play Games Coming To Windows

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Google Play games are coming to Windows, while Microsoft was apparently willing to bend over backwards if Apple had let xCloud games into the iOS app store. Meta’s first tangible foray into the Metaverse. The English Football punters buying into NFTs. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride My First Million Podcast Links: Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (The Verge) MICROSOFT QUIETLY TOLD APPLE IT WAS WILLING TO TURN BIG XBOX-EXCLUSIVE GAMES INTO IPHONE APPS (The Verge) Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds (The Verge) Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Pokémon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia (The New Yorker) Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (The New Yorker) Amazon is making its own containers and bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes (CNBC) HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY (The Verge) Three Steps To The Future (Ben Evans' 2022 Slide Deck) On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, December 10th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.2	Today, Google Play Games are coming to Windows, while Microsoft was apparently willing to bend over backwards
0:14.4	if Apple had let X Cloud games into the iOS App Store. Meta's first
0:19.2	tangible foray into the metaverse is here, the English football punters buying into
0:24.7	nFTs and of course the weekend long read suggestions here's what you miss
0:28.6	today in the world of tech.
0:32.4	Google says it will release Google Play Games in 2022 as a native Windows app that will
0:38.0	bring Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11, Quoting the Verge.
0:43.0	Starting in 2022, players will be able to experience their favorite Google Play games on more devices.
0:48.0	Seemlessly switching between a phone, tablet, Chromebook, and soon Windows PCs, says Greg Hartrell, Google's
0:54.6	product director of games on Android and Google Play in a statement to the
0:57.9	Verge. This Google built product brings the best of Google Play games to more
1:02.3	laptops and
1:02.8	desktops and we are thrilled to expand our platform for players to enjoy
1:06.3	their favorite Android games even more."
1:08.3	Google spokesperson Alex Garcia Comert tells The Verge that the company has built this app on its own
1:15.2	which means Google hasn't partnered with Microsoft Blue Stacks or others here.
1:19.9	The upcoming app will also allow players to resume games on a desktop PC after playing
1:23.7	them on a phone tablet or Chromebook. For now Google is simply teasing the app during
1:28.4	the game awards, which were last night, with a promised release window of sometime next year.
1:34.0	It's not clear what technology Google is using to emulate
1:36.6	Android apps on Windows, but games will run locally
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