Google Play get serious: Glass app reveals gaming goodness

The Google Glass companion app, the software needed to run the dorky-looking but pretty cool wearable smartphone, has been broken down into separate files that reveal a Play Store secret: Google is going to include console-like features into yet-to-be-named gaming service. We’re talking online and turn-based multiplayer, in-game chat, leaderboards, achievements, lobbies and game invitations.

These are all services commonly seen on PS3 and Xbox 360. With Android consoles such as Ouya launching very soon, Google’s plan to introduce a coherent gaming structure to its store is nothing short of genius. Read on!

Androidpolice.com provides an outstanding breakdown of the Glass companion app. Inside the GMS (Google Mobile Services) shared components was a “games” folder:

And inside this folder, were system files pointing to each new game store feature. Now, when Google ships an app update, it picks and chooses what components it needs from the GMS, which Google is now calling “Google Play Services” (it simply never changed the GMS acronym). Google wasn’t choosy about its component selection process, instead deciding to bundle every component feature into the Glass Companion app. All caught up?

These are the system files for in-game achievements

And this is what turn-based multiplayer system files look like

The other files (online multi, in-game invites) all share the similar look, so we won’t include them. Just know that a Google gaming service is coming very soon. Perhaps it’ll be part of an important Android update?

Images via Androidpolice.com