Topping tech headlines this weekend, a leak in advance of this week’s Google I/O conference revealed a host of Android-friendly gaming features set to arrive on the OS in the form of a new “Google Play Games” service.

Gamers can expect to find new Google+ integration for their games, allowing them to send and receive notifications, as well as synchronized game saves. The new system reportedly also includes popups that automatically notify players when they’ve done something especially noteworthy; leaderboards are also set to arrive within the update.

In other Google news, the company is finally unlocking push notifications within Chrome OS and its Chrome browser. The move will allow apps and extensions to push messages directly to users when particular actions occur, including a news alert, messages sent to a user, or a stock hitting a price threshold. After the user installs a particular app or extension, their channel ID gets passed to the developer’s server, which notifies Google Cloud Messaging, which, in turn, sends a message to “all instances of Chrome where the user is signed in,” Google said.

Meanwhile, less than a week after Adobe announced plans to halt the company’s Creative Suite software and replace it with the subscription-based Creative Cloud, an online petition against the change has, of this writing, garnered over 10,000 e-signatures. The petition claims that “Adobe is robbing small businesses, freelancers, and the average customer,” adding that Adobe does “not seem to understand that every company is not a multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporation that has an infinite amount of resources.” Creative Cloud costs $49.99 per month, or $29.99 as part of its first-year promotional pricing.

Also making headlines this weekend:

• Infographic: The Cost of Losing Your Smartphone: Raw numbers demonstrating just how tethered to our phones we really are can be pretty mind-blowing.
• Hacker Hits ‘Sex and The City’ Author Candace Bushnell, Leaks Book Pages: The hacker “Guccifer” leaked the first 50 pages of Bushnell’s latest novel, Killing Monica.
• Apple Rumored to be Enhancing AppleCare: Apple’s changes to AppleCare repairs will allegedly save the company up to $1 billion annually.
• Microsoft Plans Internet Explorer Fixes for Patch Tuesday: Microsoft will close serious vulnerabilities in all versions of Internet Explorer as part of this month’s Path Tuesday update.
• Apple’s ‘iRadio’ Streaming Service Reportedly Stalls with Sony Music: Sony Music is allegedly the final holdout of the “big three” record labels that Apple needs in order to get its streaming service off the ground.