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Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature

Google launched Playground, a browser-based platform that lets users create games from text prompts without coding skills, running on Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria. Google and Unity also announced Unity Spark, a more professional AI tool with a beta planned for 2026.

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Google launched Playground, a browser-based platform that lets users create their own games using nothing but text prompts and no coding skills. The platform runs on Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria. Alongside Playground, Google and Unity announced Unity Spark, a more professional AI tool with a beta planned for 2026.

The article Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature appeared first on The Decoder.

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