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Two years on, Stadia seems to have no direction left
What initially seemed like a really promising idea, to give you gaming on any device and wherever you are has turned into something of a let-down overall.
Category: Cloud Gaming
Stadia gets Control, Hello Engineer and more in Stadia Pro for October
Time for another look at what Google are doing with their cloud gaming service Stadia with more new releases and new Stadia Pro games coming to the optional subscription. There's also a new way to party up with people.
ARK: Survival Evolved releases on Stadia with a bunch more free games for Stadia Pro
ARK: Survival Evolved, the still incredibly popular open-world game from Studio Wildcard is now on Stadia and along with a few other games it's free for Stadia Pro subscribers.
Destiny 2 on Stadia finally gets cross-platform play
For those of you using Linux and the cloud gaming service Stadia, Destiny 2 got a huge boost recently as Bungie finally implemented cross-play.
Unity acquires streaming service Parsec for $320 million
Unity Technologies, maker of the Unity game engine, has entered an agreement to acquire the streaming service Parsec.
Stadia tries to appeal to a younger audience with new family-friendly games
One thing all stores need is a healthy selection of games of all genres and it seems Google have started to expand the types of games they're now offering with Stadia. There's also some free play days coming for Rainbow Six Siege.
Netflix is getting into video games, so we'll have another cloud gaming service
Not only is Netflix a huge force in series, films, anime and plenty more they're also now getting into video games.
Stadia gets more generous revenue models plus a porting toolkit for DirectX to Vulkan
At the recent Google for Games Developer Summit it seems that Google actually still has quite a clear focus on Stadia and they're trying to entice more developers to bring their games over.
Rainbow Six Siege out on Stadia today, more games confirmed and a big 'mega' sale
Google continue bringing over more and more titles to Stadia, with the next set of Stadia Pro titles revealed too.
Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) rolls out to everyone and it works on Linux
We now have yet another serious entry into cloud gaming / game streaming with Microsoft formally launching Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) for everyone with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and it works out of the box on Linux.
Hello Engineer is out as a Stadia exclusive with State Share, Madden NFL 22 pre-order
It's been a little while since we talked about Stadia so it's time for another round-up of things happening for Google's cloud gaming service.
Piepacker goes Open Beta, play retro games online with friends in a browser tab
Piepacker is something we previewed recently, a game streaming / cloud gaming service designed around retro games that enables you to seamlessly play online with others. It's now in Open Beta.
Rainbow Six Siege launching on Stadia, along with a big Ubisoft+ expansion
It appears that at least Ubisoft are being serious about Stadia, with Ubisoft+ rolling out to more countries and they're bringing a bunch more games to Stadia too.
Retro game streaming service Piepacker is quite impressive and works well on Linux
We've seen numerous game streaming services now like Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and probably more to come. They all focus on the new and shiny but what about old games? Piepacker is going to be a hit for that.
Stadia Pro games for June include Blue Fire, MotoGP20 and more - ARK arrives this 'Summer'
We now know what you can expect from Stadia Pro, the optional Google Stadia subscription, if you stay subscribed in June with the next set of claimable games announced. Time for another Stadia round-up.
Stadia confirms Super Animal Royale and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse plus more coming
Stadia has confirmed another few new announcements for their Linux-powered game streaming service that will be coming soon. Some out now, some have no release date yet.
Google says Stadia is very much 'alive and well' according to a new interview
Despite everywhere you look there's always someone pointing to the Google Graveyard, the game streaming service Stadia is still soldiering on in the face of overwhelming competition.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is free on Stadia Pro, Head of Product at Stadia leaves
May the 4th be with you, if you're a Stadia Pro subscriber as you can now claim Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order free.
Google finally adds a search bar to Stadia, some big UI changes coming that look good
It's hard to believe that Google, leader of the search engines took this long to implement search into Stadia but it's finally here. The Stadia team also announced some good other changes coming.
Trine 4, Hotline Miami 2 and Floor Kids for Stadia Pro in May and more updates
The next set of games coming to Stadia Pro has been announced with Trine 4, Hotline Miami 2 and Floor Kids plus April 30 is your last chance to grab some of them.
- Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
- Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit
- VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades
- Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux
- Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
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