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Google will soon let you try games while you're playing other games, because phones have ruined us
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Android game developers will soon have a new tool to lure more players to their games.

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, Google an**unced a new feature (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/google-unveils-playable-ads-for-android-game-developers-and-other-tools/)called "Playables," which allows users to test-drive a lightweight version of a gamewithin an advertisement. In other words, there's ** app download required—and it all happens while you're in a**ther game.*

So much for our attention spans.

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Playables is one of the formats available in Google's Universal App Campaigns (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6247380?hl=en), a tool that allows developers to have their ads placed across several Google properties just by writing a few lines of text. It's currently available to some advertisers, but the tech giant plans to start rolling it out to all Universal App Campaign clients soon, a spokesperson for Google said, so you can expect to see the feature more often. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/03/google-playables-mobile-game/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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