YouTube testing a games offering called ‘Playables’

YouTube is running a new experiment, and is selecting a number of users play online games as part of it.

These games can be accessed on both desktop and mobile, and the will be found in a new “Playables” section on YouTube’s home feed.

This is a confirmation of a report that was previously released The Wall Street Journal, which wrote that Playables would feature titles such as Stack Bounce, an arcade-style game where players bounce a 3D ball to break through layers of rotating bricks.

Since 2021, Stack Bounce has been available on Google’s minigames service, GameSnacks, therefore chances are that many users will want to play the game on YouTube.

YouTube’s history tab named “My Activity”, allows users to view and control their history and saved game progress.

It is only a year later that the experiment is taking place Google announced it would kill its cloud gaming service Stadia after it failed to gain enough traction, likely struggling to compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now.

Statistics that were shared by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), revealed that Stadia had an estimated 0-5% share of the cloud gaming market in 2022, compared to Nvidia GeForce with 20-30%.