The Google Assistant games are disappearing from Nest Hub

Google Nest Hub is warning users that the Assistant games are going away soon. From June you can no longer play these games on the smart home screen.

Nest Hub games

Developers have been able to develop games for the Assistant under the guise of “Conversation Actions” since 2016, with Google later enabling touch input via Canvas. This caused developers to create multiple games, which will eventually also be playable on Nest Hub. Although, ‘to be’ will soon become ‘were’, because Google is also pulling the plug here. The company clearly wants to save energy: it has been pulling plugs quite rigorously lately. We call a Stadia, the support of third-party smart screens and more.

You could access the games by saying “Hey Google, talk to X” or simply tapping the games tab on smart displays. Google Assistant now indicates that you can still ask how an elephant sounds, but games like Trivia Crack, Guess the Drawing and Categories Battle will soon be a thing of the past.

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App Actions

So it takes the fun out of the App Actions. Those App Actions are very useful, because developers can add voice control to Android applications without having to make something for each separate device. So this will work on phones, Wear OS watches, tablets, Google TV, Android TV and Android Auto. Consider, for example, being able to ask: “Hey Google, transfer 10 euros to xxx via Paypal’. That functionality remains, but the games side of it seems to languish a little more.

So Google is going a bit more in the serious direction instead of the entertaining side. It continues to focus on alarm clocks, automating your home, media and communication, but no longer or at least considerably less on the playful side of the tech. At least on Nest Hub, as we don’t expect this to hold true for the rest of the Google Assistant experience.

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