Google Stadia: Everything you need to know

Ubisoft has a ton of killer titles, but getting them all isn’t cheap. For a while, the company has been developing “UPlay+,” a $14.99/month subscription service with access to over 100 games including brand new releases. Now, that service is being rebranded as Ubisoft+, and it finally has a launch date of November 10th — except for on Stadia.

Following three days of “Good Stuff” announcements, “Stadia” has begun trending on Twitter following a tweet from a Google Stadia Games & Entertainment Creative Director suggesting that streamers should be paying game studios a percentage of their revenue.

Closing out three days of “Good Stuff” announcements, Stadia is revealing two more games coming to players next year, including Young Souls, a First on Stadia exclusive.

This week, Stadia is bringing a jam-packed three days of game announcements and exclusive demos in a video event series they’ve dubbed “Good Stuff.” Today, Google has taken the wraps off of three new exclusive Stadia demos, including Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

Update 2: Day three of the “Good Stuff” has gone live, bringing a quick demo of Ubisoft’s upcoming Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

To help your friends let you know that it’s time to game, the Stadia app for Android and iOS now offers notifications for game invites, friend requests, and more.

Google Stadia delivers one of the best game streaming experiences out there today, but like GeForce Now and Xbox Game Pass, Apple makes it extraordinarily difficult to get Stadia into the App Store. Luckily, there might be a way through the web. Thanks to a custom browser app, you can get Stadia up and running on iOS in a matter of minutes.

As part of day two of Stadia’s “Good Stuff” event, a port of ARK: Survival Evolved has been announced to be coming early next year.

For a few months now, we’ve been watching work progress on a full referral system for Stadia, one that offers an incentive for both the sender and recipient. Today, a limited number of Stadia players have begun to be offered this new referral and reward system.

Last week, eagle-eyed Stadia fans spotted a few seconds of what appeared to be a new Pac-Man game during a Stadia ad. Today, as part of Stadia’s three-day “Good Stuff” series, Bandai Namco has now revealed Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle, a battle royale twist on an arcade classic.

Long before the launch of Google Stadia, the one game many players have been looking forward to enjoying is Cyberpunk 2077, though no official launch date for the Stadia version was ever given. Today, CD Projekt Red has given Stadia fans the news they wanted to hear, that Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on Stadia side-by-side with other consoles.

From the developers of one of our favorite party games on Stadia, Get Packed, comes a new title. Cake Bash is launching today across Xbox, PS4, Steam, and Google Stadia for $19.99 and it’s an absolute blast to play.

One of the biggest criticisms of Google Stadia is its lack of games, but in a new ad today, the service is teasing new titles from EA including Madden 21 and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order.

The latest update to Google Stadia for Android, version 2.39, includes preparation for a free trial of Stadia Pro for Google One members.

Over the summer Google opened the doors to streaming Stadia games from an LTE/5G connection, but it was left as an experimental feature. Tonight, Stadia has quietly enabled improved support for mobile data streaming.

Dungeons and Dragons fans, rejoice! The wait is over. Baldur’s Gate 3, the latest game from Larian Studios based on Dungeons and Dragons, has finally entered early access on Google Stadia and beyond.