Stadia just got a big boost for web browsers - just so long as you're using Chrome, of course. This week the streaming video game platform Stadia was boosted to 4K in web browsers, and the rest of the necessary graphics power and hardware. Those requirements include - for starters - a proper internet connection speed.
An announcement from Stadia today suggests three new games are coming to Stadia Pro inside the month of April. That'll bring the total number of games available for "free" on Stadia Pro to 10. Also in the mix are Destiny 2, GRID (racing), GYLT, Metro Exodus (so long as you claim it before March 31), and THUMPER (also so long as you claim before March 31). There's also Steam World 2 DIG, and Steam World QUEST: Hand of Gilgamech.
This week the folks at Stadia and Unity Technologies made an announcement about their new initiative to bring new games to the cloud gaming universe. This is part of the Google for Games Developer Summit - an online event, as is the situation with most events in the world at the moment. In Stadia Makers, creators will have the potential to be given technical assistance, free development hardware, and funding.
Google Stadia has launched a one day price cut, trimming $30 from the cost of the streaming console, and it coincides with one of the most hotly-anticipated games of 2020. Stadia Premiere Edition would usually set you back $129, but Google currently offers it for $99 with free shipping.
In recent weeks, Google has been announcing new games for Stadia at a decent clip, and today it revealed two more. There's a bit of a theme to this pair of upcoming games, with Google revealing that Relicta and The Turing Test are headed to Stadia in the near future. In both cases, players will be dropped in space and tasked with solving puzzles.
Today we're taking a peek at the newly-released 4K capabilities of Google Stadia in web browsers - and updating you on our ever-evolving review process with the service. It's a slightly less straightforward process, reviewing a service instead of a piece of hardware. Instead of judging the device on its hard-and-fast qualities, we've got to watch what happens with the software over time. As such, and as we're seeing here with Stadia, things can actually get quite a bit better.
Ever since Stadia launched last year, Google has been building out the service's capabilities. Not only does this mean that more games are being added to the Stadia Store - Google says we'll see 120 games come to Stadia within 2020 - but it also means that Google has been padding out Stadia's feature list. Today, it seems, support for Stadia screen captures are going live, albeit slowly.
After a period of hype and media coverage, both the good and the bad, Google Stadia's next challenge would be not only to maintain its player base but also to grow it. Founders Edition and Buddy Passes will soon give way to a free tier, which will apparently be called "Stadia Base". Google has yet to officially announce details but it seems that it is already laying the groundwork for an eventual launch in a few months.
Google's newly-launched game streaming platform may be the hot topic in gaming circles these days, at least until NVIDIA GeForce NOW fully opened its doors, but, in the grand scheme of things, Stadia isn't exactly a hot market. To date, the platform only has over two dozen games to boast of more than three months after it launched and the lack of titles may be turning off potential gamers from throwing money at it. It turns out, even Google itself may not be so eager to throw its own cash into the platform which, in turn, is giving game developers some hangups.
After 20 years, we're finally getting a new game in the mainline Baldur's Gate series, and with the RPG masters at Larian Studios at the helm of this game, there's good reason to be excited. Last week, Larian announced that it would be revealing our first look at Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay at PAX East. The big day has finally come, so if you're looking forward to this game, you might want to check out the reveal.
March is nearly upon us, and that means a new batch of free games for Google Stadia Pro subscribers. Today, Google detailed just what those games are, along with announcing a new game that's going up in the Stadia Store. Unfortunately, some of the surprise has already been ruined, as Google announced two of Stadia Pro's three free games last week.
It was only recently that Google finally opened the Stadia doors to smartphones outside its Pixel family but it had one important catch. It required the use of a wired controller which somewhat negated the portability benefits of the game streaming service. Fortunately, there are a few enterprising developers who refuse to take things sitting down. One such developer has brought his Chrome tool to enable Stadia gamers on Android to actually use the input method that's always available to them: touch.