Google Stadia: Everything you need to know

This Thursday, December 3rd, Google will host a livestream with some gaming creators to announce the latest titles arriving on Stadia, likely including Outcasters.

Last month, Stadia entered new territory by making the base game of Destiny 2 entirely free to play. Today, Super Bomberman R Online is becoming Stadia’s second free-to-play game, making the battle royale action available for all.

So we are running out of days in 2020 and we’ve hit a major milestone for Google’s cloud-gaming platform. November 2020 saw us celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Stadia and some hardcore PR in an attempt to turn around the public perception of Stadia after some serious PR missteps last month. That’s not all though, as some great things have been happening throughout November for one of the front-running game streaming services.

As promised, Jedi: Fallen Order has arrived on Stadia today with good news for buyers: the game is discounted to just $24 — under half its retail price — alongside the rest of Google’s Black Friday deals.

Inevitably, it was always going to take time for a brand new gaming platform like Google Stadia to build up its library. So far, the collection is at around 100 games with more on the way, but what’s next? According to a Stadia exec, over 400 new games are currently on their way to the platform.

It’s been a year since Google Stadia was first made available to the public, and in that time, the service has proven itself to many despite still having some issues. While cloud streaming still has challenges to overcome, Stadia has proven itself as something that can change the way people play games for the better. In the past year, though, many myths and misconceptions about Stadia have run rampant. Here’s why a lot of what you’ve heard about Stadia is wrong.

Google’s Stadia platform has officially been available for a year, and quite a bit has happened in that time. The library has grown, features have been added, and finally, it seems like people are starting to see the value. What’s next? Stadia Vice President John Justice had a few things to say about that, including free-to-play games and where he sees customers for the platform.

In Google Stadia’s biggest player outreach to date, Destiny 2’s base game is becoming entirely free-to-play — no subscription required — to match other platforms.

Update: Destiny 2 is now available for all Stadia players to enjoy for free.

As part of Stadia’s one-year anniversary celebrations, Google has announced that the game streaming service will be coming to more countries around the world later this year.

Apple’s tough enforcement of its App Store policies has led to a sad lack of a playable version of Google Stadia on iOS. That is set to change very soon as public testing of a dedicated progressive web app is set to start within “several weeks.”

One year ago today, Google unleashed Stadia, their ambitious game streaming platform, onto the world. In the time since then, my gaming has been done almost entirely through Stadia alone. Over the course of 2020, Google Stadia has grown in many ways, stagnated in some others, but a special something about it has always shined through.

Ubisoft has launched a few major games this Fall, but it has one more major release coming before the year is out. Immortals: Fenyx Rising will launch fully on December 3, but you can now play the game’s demo version for free on Stadia through December 21.

As its one-year anniversary quickly approaches, Google has been on a tear with new features for Stadia. We’ve been tracking it for months, and now it appears that messaging is rolling out on Google Stadia.

One argument many make against Stadia is that Google has a reputation for “killing” apps. Today, we’re learning that Google has ambitions for Stadia Games and Entertainment to launch games through 2023 and beyond.