Author: Jack Deslippe
Jack Deslippe is an HPC professional with a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. As a hobby, he is passionate about consumer technology and Cloud Gaming in particular. He volunteers as an editor for Cloud Dosage in his spare time. See the games Jack is Playing at ExoPhase. Like his content? You can follow Jack on Threads: @jackdeslippe and Buy Jack a Beer.
Why Does Stadia Use Linux?
Given Windows’ dominant position in gaming, people often ask “Why does Stadia use Linux?” I decided to answer – to the best of my abilities, which does include a fair amount of data-center expertise and decades of gaming on Linux. I personally believe Microsoft’s massive investments in gaming content in the last year has more […]
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Stadia Stats: A Ray of Sunshine in the Stadia Community
Better late than never right? We are getting this week’s edition of Sunday Stadia Stats out while it is still Sunday somewhere on earth. As a reminder, we regularly collect data on all sorts of Stadia platform, game and community metrics. You can find and interact with all of the data on our stats page! […]
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Zorro the Chronicles Released on Stadia
Good news for fans of the Masked sword wielding hero! Zorro the Chronicles, based on the animated series, has released on Stadia. You can pick up the game now for $29.99! The game, developed by Bkom and published by NACON, is a single player action adventure game that comes with an E10+ rating. The Stadia […]
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Assassin’s Creed Origins Free for the Weekend. Rainbow 6 Siege Free Next Weekend.
As part of a 12 week celebration for the 15th anniversary of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, one of our favorite games in the series, Assassin’s Creed Origins, is going free to play on Stadia as well as other platforms from June 16 to June 20. Assassin’s Creed Origins takes place in Egypt during the time […]
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Stadia Stats: Slow Weeks Still Have Big Milestones
Welcome one and all to another edition of Sunday Stadia Stats! You can always find the raw data and interact with all the plots on our dedicated Stats page! Keep in mind it is always best to compare these numbers with others in the young but growing cloud gaming space. It’s been a bit of a […]
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From Space Stadia Release Date Narrowed
If you were a fan of the From Space demo that hit Stadia awhile back, good news the game is now officially slated to come to the platform! The From Space Stadia release date has been set to its cross-platform day and date global release in Fall 2022. The game will also be hitting Switch […]
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Top 10 Most Played Games on Stadia
In our continuing series of Top 10 games, let’s next take a look at the actual Most Played Games on Stadia! You can also check out the Top 10 games by cross-platform sales and metascore! The precise total play time for Stadia games isn’t publicly available from the Stadia team. But, stay tuned! Our data […]
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Backbone One Controller Coming to Android with Two Free Months of Stadia
Thanks to our friends at Chrome Unboxed for pointing out that the hugely popular Backbone one mobile controller (that turns your phone into an awesome Steam Deck like gaming device for cloud gaming) is releasing an Android (USB-C) version! What’s even cooler? An order gets new Stadia Pro users two free months. It is up […]
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Stadia Low Change Porting
Earlier this year, at the Google for Games Developer Summit, the Stadia team confirmed what many folks who are familiar with gaming on Linux suspected, Google and developer partners have been using various known techniques to get Windows games running under Linux for Stadia. Google’s portfolio of techniques involves a continually evolving/maturing set of tools that […]
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Stadia Game Metascore Insights
Yesterday, we posted the list of Top 10 Stadia games by (cross-platform) Metascore. There were quite a few surprises in this list. Let’s keep to this theme of Stadia Game Metascores and see what other insights we can gain from the data. Firstly, let’s rank the Stadia games by their cross-platform Metascore and then plot […]
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