According to the “Wall Street Journal” report, Google’s parent company Alphabet recently disclosed in an email to employees that YouTube is internally testing an online game service.
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According to reports, Alphabet has begun inviting employees to test a new YouTube service called “Playables.” The games available for testing include the arcade game “Stack Bounce”. These games can be played on the YouTube website through a browser or on mobile devices running Android or iOS.
Gaming has long been in the spotlight, and the company is indeed experimenting with new features but has “nothing to announce” at this time, a YouTube spokesperson said.
The report also said that YouTube is a popular platform for users to watch live games and watch live clips. The new game service is the company’s CEO Neal Mohan is another measure to deal with the slowdown of YouTube advertising spending.
It was previously reported that YouTube is also testing another new feature called Aloud, which uses AI dubbing technology to translate video content into other languages. Aloud is currently only available for English-language videos, and can automatically generate spoken content in Spanish and Portuguese, and more languages will be supported in the future.
