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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to google issues for everything google that we can pack inside of a show each week and the number one question that i get from you guys is tell me more about to google watching while nothing is official elias is added again recently claiming the purported specs for Google's first watch in its partnership with LG now Evelyn's revealed the rumored specs that will include a 1.65 IPS LCD display with a 280 x 280 square resolution with 512 megs of ram and 4 gigs of internal storage for possibly apps and mp3s with an internal processor still yet to be determined evelyn's has had a stellar record and so we could see an announcement soon aligning with the rumored march time frame and a google i/o release in june now the game developers conference is underway in San Francisco this week in google announced that it will be bringing multiplayer support to iOS through google gameplay services along with other improvements for developers Thank You googs for doing something about cross platform game development between the two now Google will also be introducing game gifts for devs that allow users to send virtual in-game objects to anyone in their circles the play games app now supports multiplayer invites directly and there will be 18 new game categories to make it easier to find games you love now one of them is rumored to be games with the word flappy but unfortunately flappy Brian was rejected in I don't see what's wrong with flappy bird oh alright amazon's android running set-top box that is rumored to also play games and release around March or April is building some buzz after leaked photos of an Amazon branded controller were discovered in an overseas regulatory filing by website that's not funny now the controller features standard game control buttons shoulder buttons and triggers in addition to media controls centered in the bottom area of the controller and a home menu and back button as well now the latest report from TechCrunch claims that Amazon's streaming box won't be a box but a dongle like the chromecast that could also feature on live like streaming of games and apps now this also flows along nicely with the recent availability of the software development kit for Amazon's ab stream service that will support a variety of apps and games and would be the perfect complement to get content on its set-top box as soon as possible amazon wants to be a player in the living room and its recent purchase of game developer double helix the team behind killer instinct and Strider show its commitment to making gaming a part of its offering as well so we'll keep watching this as the living room battle just keeps getting bigger and Amazon will celebrate its own apps or turning three years old this saturday marks the 22nd and will be launching a two-week gift giving campaign slashing up to sixty percent off of some of its most popular titles in the store all right guys let's check out the quick hits and this one is worth paying attention to Google is lowering the monthly plans it offers to users across the board for drive space Google still offers the free 15 gigs that come with your google account but the plans are now one dollar ninety-nine cents for 100 gigs down from 499 a new plan for ten dollars from one terabyte down from fifty dollars and a ten terabyte and up plan that starts at ninety-nine bucks also we're about a week out from a cici's official reveal in we've shown you the phone and now you can see tidbits of a cici's sense 6.0 you I demoed on this video now there's nothing drastic here with a little flatter and bolder colors here and there but the biggest discovery so far has been motion launch gestures like swiping up left or right to launch different features of the phone and Samsung is also opening up development for the gear 2 and gear 2 neo with the release of their Tizen SDK for wearables now partners that will already launch apps with the gear to include CNN I Heart Radio ebay and others and UK customers looking for the gold colored galaxy s5 well Vodafone will exclusively carry the gold version for fans of gold band aids with pre-orders starting on March 28 and it could possibly remain exclusive to Vodafone in the UK tier alright guys that's going to do it for this week's show keep telling me your deepest and darkest secrets in just email us at Google licious at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next week for some more of that google ish google ishes