Google wants to bring the best Android games to the PC in 2022 – Diablo Immortal too?

Google wants to bring the best Android games to the PC and use their new service Google Play Games, which should go live as early as 2022. Will Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s much-anticipated mobile game, also be there? We at MeinMMO summarize.

What was announced? As part of the Game Awards last night, Google presented a new program with which it should be possible to play Android games on the PC.

Similar to BlueStacks, an Android is simulated on your computer, which makes it possible to play your favorite mobile titles comfortably on your PC.

Google spokesman Alex Garcia-Kummert told The Verge magazine that the program will be a completely separate application and will do without the help and technology of partners such as BlueStacks or Microsoft. It also states that it will not appear exclusively on Windows 11.

What’s in it for you? In contrast to BlueStacks, the games are not streamed from the cloud, but are installed locally on your Windows PC. That could also mean that you don’t necessarily need an internet connection to play.

In addition, it should be possible to transfer your saved games in the games at any time and thus play with the same savegame on Android, laptop, PC and tablet.

While Microsoft is currently also working on ways to play your Android games on the PC, Google has the advantage here that, unlike Microsoft, it does not necessarily require Windows 11. The new Google service will run with Windows 10 and Windows 11 and will be made available for download directly from Google.

When can you use that? There is no release date yet. Google restricts itself to the period “sometime in 2022”. This statement suggests that it is not yet at the door, but that you have to be patient a little longer.

Diablo Immortal will also be released in 2022, more precisely in the first half of 2022. It is still unclear whether the release of Google’s emulator will coincide and you can play Diablo Immortal directly on the PC release.

Diablo Immortal on the PC – is that possible?

Which games can you play? Unfortunately, Google has not yet defined exactly which games are involved. It is also not clear whether you can simply play all Android games on the new Google emulator.

Greg Hartrell, Google’s product director for Android games, told The Verge magazine:

By 2022, players will be able to enjoy their favorite Google Play games on more devices. It will be possible to switch seamlessly between your phone, a tablet, a Chromebook and even Windows PCs.

This Google-built program will bring the best of Google Play games to more laptops and desktops, and we look forward to expanding our platform. We look forward to our players enjoying their favorite Android games even more soon.

At another point there is talk of bringing “the best of Google Play Games to laptops and PCs” – that could mean that all games are meant or just a selection.

Will Diablo be there? An official confirmation that you can also play Diablo Immortal on the PC with it does not yet exist. However, Diablo Immortal is one of the most anticipated mobile titles for 2022.

So it would be a good move by Google to include Diablo Immortal in the program in order to get closer to the Diablo fans, who are mostly at home on the PC.

We at MeinMMO will of course keep you up to date, should new information arise.

What do you think? Do you use emulators like BlueStacks and do you see the advantage that an application specially built by Google could bring with you? Or do you think the whole thing is superfluous? Let us know your opinion and write us a comment here on MeinMMO.

By the way, MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus is generally convinced that every MMORPG fan should definitely watch Diablo Immortal.