By YouTube is delving into the world of gaming with a new experimental offering. The platform is introducing a “Playables” section on its site, featuring games that can be played on both desktop and mobile devices. Initially, this feature will be available to a select group of users, and no list of specific game titles has been released yet.
To find out if you’re part of this gaming experiment, keep an eye out for the new “Playables” section on YouTube, which will appear alongside your regular content in the home feed. This move adds another layer of entertainment to YouTube’s diverse content library, which already includes short-form videos, movies, video game streams, music, TV shows, podcasts, and more.
YouTube isn’t the only streaming platform exploring gaming. Netflix is also making strides in the gaming industry, and even social media giant TikTok is offering games to a limited audience, with experiments involving streamers playing with their viewers and live trivia contests with cash prizes.
As for the games available in this initial testing phase on YouTube’s Playables, Google has not disclosed specifics, and participation is currently limited to a select few users. The future of Playables beyond this testing phase remains uncertain, considering Google’s history of discontinuing projects, and its previous foray into gaming was not particularly successful.
