Google Play Games for PC Beta is now live in Europe

Last updated May 24, 2023 by Lars Weidmann

At the Google Games Summit, it was announced that Play Games on PC will be expanding into new territories, adding a few new games along the way.

Google Play Games on PC, which first launched in beta testing last year, allows gamers to enjoy their favorite mobile games on a bigger screen and developers to connect with their fans.

Google also showed off some popular titles among the many coming to Play Games on PC in the near future, such as Angry Birds 2 and Disney Mirrorverse.

To bring more games to the platform, Google has partnered with Intel to run bundled games for smartphones instead of PC through Play Games on PC. Despite this, Google continues to urge developers to improve apps for the platform and only use this as a temporary solution to quickly bring new titles to the plate.

In addition, the company is also previewing Custom Play Games on a PC emulator that integrates with Android Studio to make it easier to test games on Windows. For now, developers need to express interest and hope to gain approval to access the emulator.

As hinted earlier this year, the Google Play Games beta on PC is now available in Europe.

This is quite an expansion as the beta has so far been limited to 13 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. With this expansion in Europe and New Zealand, the Play Games PC beta is now available in 56 countries.

They are now More than 100 Android games are available on PC. Google already hinted in December 2021 that it will extend the multi-screen gaming platform from Android smartphones, tablets and ChromeOS to Windows.

Minimum requirements for Google Play Games

You need a quad-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, 10GB of free SSD space, Intel UHD Graphics 630 or similar, and at least Windows 10 (2004 version). However, Google recommends a “Gaming Class GPU – such as Nvidia GeForce MX450. All recommended GPUs for Google Play Games You will find here.

Access in Germany must also be activated at any time once this happens Download the trial version here.