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yes, really.The initiative - which Google is reportedly branding Playables - will enable users to instantly play online games via YouTube's website or via its mobile apps on iOS and Android.
Only one available title, Stack Bounce - a casual arcade game challenging players to smash horizontally stacked bricks with a ball - was highlighted in the publication's report.
The Playables project is said to be part of YouTube CEO's Neal Mohan push to find new areas of growth in the wake of declining advertising spending.
last time was, of course. the now infamous Stadia project.
the difference appears to be that the games are directly running in your browser rather than being in the cloud, at least the test title seems simple enough to work that way.
Stadia itself was also tested with an extremely simple game, which was made freely playable during the service's final days. maybe someone there should port it to this project, making the game readily available again?