Google Play Games might be headed to the graveyard

Google is softly gathering cardinal features of its Play Games app, which lets you way achievements connected Android games, straight into the Play Store, Android Police reports — signaling plans that the erstwhile whitethorn beryllium headed for the infamous Google Graveyard.

Coder and self-proclaimed APK teardown specializer AssembleDebug posted connected X that Google hasn’t made immoderate important updates regarding idiosyncratic interface and features successful the Google Play Games apps successful months. However, AssembleDebug has seen updates nether the hood of the Google Play Store app that see upcoming Gamer Profiles and the quality to “follow” different users. AssembleDebug says the Play Store tin already way gamers’ achievements.

Google Play Games for Android launched successful 2013 to vie with Apple’s Game Center — astatine a clip erstwhile smartphone gaming was hitting its stride and, for the archetypal time, truly challenging portable video crippled systems for people’s attention. Google has often moved features betwixt apps arsenic they aged, similar erstwhile Google Pay bowed retired in favour of Google Wallet.

The Google Play Games app isn’t the aforesaid arsenic the company’s Google Play Games for PC service, which lets you play prime Android games connected Windows computers (and has been successful beta for more than 3 years). Last month, Google said it’s bringing much games to the PC app. The Google Play Games app connected Android, though, looks slated for redundancy earlier it yet sees itself out.