It's no secret that a lot of popular games have been showing up for Android lately. But one thing that seems to have been in somewhat short supply for these titles is a note of organization. To that end, Android Police started looking at the My Glass application--the companion app for Google Glass--and discovered what looked like a feature list. More specifically, a feature list for a service that could be, essentially, the Google equivalent of Apple's Game Center.
Contained in that feature list includes a separate games folder, a specific capability for multiplayer gaming, provisions for achievements, a lobby for players to gather between games, and several other provisions that might make Google Glass home to a particularly exciting breed of game center. However, it's worth noting that Google Glass is generally not capable of running major applications like Android apps, so some have believed that this may just be a minor mistake, with the Glass team putting all the Google Play applications into one big package.
Still, this is good news, even if Glass is unconnected, and more will likely be unveiled about this particular round of news at Google I/O which is set to hit next month. Anything that makes gaming easier for its users is likely to be well received, and Google was kind of down the tier a little bit in terms of gaming as compared to Apple devices. Putting a little extra boost in that should be especially helpful.
It's generally accepted that the casual gaming market is larger than the core gaming market. The primary media for casual gaming is mobile devices, so Android may well be one of the biggest parts of the overall gaming market alongside iOS devices. Augmenting the gaming service is likely to bring in plenty more users total, which is just the kind of thing that Android needs to make sure that it doesn't lose ground against its various competitors.
While there's nothing official about this gaming service, the early word suggests that it may be nearly completed. Even if it's not, it would still be a smart idea, and hopefully both get--and keep--players in the Android fold.
