In 2022, Google first announced its Google Play Games on PC project, which allows Android users to play their favorite games on Windows PC. Since then, Google has released several updates to improve ...

Google's work to improve Play Games for PC continues, and it used the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC) to announce that Google Play now lets you buy select games once and play them across PC and ...

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with the 2026 Game Developer Conference underway, ...

If you see the error Hardware virtualization must be turned on in Google Play Games for Windows, turn on hardware virtualization in BIOS/UEFI first.

Google Play is getting a bunch of new PC-focused features, including a dedicated tab in the Store. “Buy once, play anywhere” will start letting you play both PC and mobile versions of select games for ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, James covers mobile phones, apps, operating systems, wearables, AI, and more.