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Stadia is a streaming service that leverages Google’s cloud to deliver AAA games online.

Stadia Controllers hanging on a wall

What is Google Stadia?

Stadia was a streaming service that leverages Google’s vast cloud infrastructure to deliver AAA and indie games alike over the web without needing specialized gaming hardware. This ambitious effort follows in the footsteps of the company’s other large platforms: Search, Chrome, and Android. Google hopes to bring this form of entertainment to the next billion gamers by removing various limitations that exist today.

What happened to Google Stadia?

In September 2022, Google announced the closure of its Stadia platform. The cloud gaming platform later shut down on January 19, 2023. Refunds were issued to customers for the cost of games, add-ons, and Stadia hardware such as the Stadia Controller.

Most games on Stadia were already available on other platforms, and the few Stadia exclusives have mostly expanded to other platforms as well.

In April 2023 it was confirmed that Phil Harrison, the former head of Google Stadia, had left the company.

Here’s all 30 games announced during the first Stadia Connect

Stadia Pixel Games

Today’s the first Stadia Connect event, where Google is answering many of the questions we’ve been asking about their upcoming game streaming service ahead of E3. If you’re not able to watch along with the livestream event, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a list of all thirty games Google announced during the Stadia Connect livestream.


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Family Link 1.38 Stadia

Family Link 1.38 preps parental controls for Google Stadia [APK Insight]

When Google first took the wraps off of Stadia during GDC, they promised that the service would have “best-in-class parental controls.” At the time, though, no further details were offered on how this would work. The latest update to Google’s Family Link app, which lets parents manage their children’s Google Accounts, gives us our first clues to how Stadia’s parental controls will work, and other potential Stadia insights.


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Google Stadia controller tidbits: WiFi connection, USB compatibility, hands-on experiences, more

Stadia Controller

Yesterday, Google revealed its vision for Stadia, a platform for game players, producers, streamers, and spectators. Paired with it, the company also unveiled a first-party game controller, which didn’t get quite the same spotlight at yesterday’s developer-focused event. Because of this, there’s quite a few things that were easy to miss.


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Google Stadia announcement tidbits: 15mbps connection, Chromecast details, pricing timeline, more

Google Stadia launch cost

Yesterday Google officially revealed Stadia to the world, the company’s big game streaming project. Impressive is almost an understatement when looking at Google’s ambitious new product, and that’s before we even get pricing details or a list of games. There are still some details to be learned from the initial hands-on coverage, though. Here are some Google Stadia tidbits you might have missed.


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Google Stadia Partners

Google announces Stadia Partners program, offering free development hardware and resources

Google’s Stadia represents a massive shift in the game development dynamic, between unheard of technology like ‘State Share‘ and Stadia’s cloud-based structure. To help facilitate on-boarding developers to the platform, Google is launching the Stadia Partners program, which offers services similar to that of a video game publisher and free access to Stadia cloud hardware.


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Google Stadia Doom

Google Stadia promises ‘Doom: Eternal’, teases ‘NBA 2K19’, ‘Tomb Raider’, more at GDC

Google unveiled its ambitious streaming gaming platform, Stadia, which was originally demonstrated using Assassins Creed Odyssey, last October. Today at GDC 2019, Google and their partners showed off a handful more games for the platform including Doom Eternal. While no official game list has been shared for Google’s Stadia, these games give us a good indicator of where the platform is going.


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