Globally popular video sharing platform YouTube has started testing a product for playing online games. The company has invited employees to test a new product called ‘Playables’. Games like Stack Bounce are available for testing on it.The Wall Street Journal report states that YouTube has sent an email about this to the employees of its parent company Google. These games can be played on web browsers via YouTube’s site or Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS mobile devices. A YouTube spokesperson said that the company’s focus has been on gaming. Experimenting with new features. However, with this he said that there is nothing to announce in this regard.The Wall Street Journal report states that YouTube has sent an email about this to the employees of its parent company Google. These games can be played on web browsers via YouTube’s site or Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS mobile devices. A YouTube spokesperson said that the company’s focus has been on gaming. Experimenting with new features. However, with this he said that there is nothing to announce in this regard.Apart from this, the company has also planned to introduce some new features. These include YouTube’s first shopping channel to be launched in South Korea. YouTube, owned by Alphabet, the company that runs Google, has been facing tough competition from Tiktok for the past few years. YouTube faced difficulties in India late last yearWhen the central government asked the company to remove three channels for making false claims about government welfare schemes and spreading fake news. These three channels were declared by the Fact Checking Unit of the Government’s Press Information Bureau as giving false and misleading information.
