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Google Play Games App Allows Recording and Publishing to YouTube Gaming

Nov 05 2015

Android

YouTube Gaming has brought game recording and publishing to the Google Play App on Android. Users are now able to record their favorite game moments and save them to YouTube all from their mobile devices. The goal of Google is to increase the amount of gaming video on YouTube that will also be available to view on the companies recent YouTube Gaming app. the amount of gaming video watched online has dramatically increased and some YouTube gaming channels are watched as much as celebrity channels.

Currently live streaming of game play is not available on YouTube but the company plans to offer that feature some time in the near future.

Mobile Android users can simply select the game they want to play from the Google Play Games app and press the record button instead of the play button. If someone wants to record themselves as they play, they can use their camera and audio recording features of their device automatically. The app also allows for editing of the video and publishing to the popular video site.

The new features are available in the US and in Britain at this time. Other counties will be added. Developers will be able to build support for recording into their apps also with a release of an SDK.

Record Gameplay on Android with Google Play Games [How-To]

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