The screen went black. Then, the Google homepage loaded. Clean, white, devoid of the games tab. The G+ era was officially over.
The Games Arc was shut down in , just under three years after launch. Several factors contributed: g+ games arc
For game developers, the Arc became a case study in platform risk: building on a Google social product meant betting on a service Google might abandon at any moment (a pattern seen with Stadia, Hangouts, and others). The screen went black