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Google Play could turn your Windows rig into an Android gaming PC in 2022

PC games are slowly, but surely, becoming more mobile, with the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and Razer’s cloud handheld making portable big-budget gaming a possibility. Yet, at the Game Awards 2022, Google played an Uno reverse card, as the company revealed it’s bringing mobile games to gaming PCs via a Play Store Windows port.

Admittedly, Google’s segment during The Game Awards was light on details, but it did confirm that the storefront will be coming to Windows in 2022. In a statement issued to The Verge, Google says that the service will allow players to seamlessly switch between mobile devices and Windows, thanks to the new app’s cloud save compatibility.

While PC games are playable on mobile thanks to streaming services like Geforce Now, Google insists it won’t use the same approach to bring Play Store apps to Windows. Instead, the port will run natively within Microsoft’s operating system, and it’ll do so without any special integration with Windows 11.

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