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Lake Shows The Power of Stadia Pro
Lake, from Gamious and and Whitethorn games, came to Stadia as a Pro game and it’s a perfect example of why I love gaming in the cloud. If you aren’t familiar with Lake it is a slow story based game where you assume the role of Meredith, a mail man’s daughter, who is covering her […]
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Stadia is a Major Driver of Vulkan Adoption
Vulkan, now on its 1.3 release, represents a hugely important innovation for gaming. It is a performant, open and cross-platform graphics standard that can, in principle, run anywhere and everywhere – unlike Microsoft’s “DirectX” and Apple’s “Metal” graphics APIs which attempt to lock games into their specific endpoints. Vulkan, like OpenGL before it, is managed […]
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Rabbids: Party of Legends – Game Review
The rabbit-like creatures from outer space return in the latest original party game from Ubisoft. The 1-4 player family game is available now now in the cloud, but is it worth picking up? Find out in our Rabbids: Party of Legends cloud game review. Gameplay At the beginning, the game lets you choose one of […]
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Centipede: Recharged – Game Review
Atari is celebrating their 50th birthday by releasing classic Atari games for today’s gamers. They are releasing five of these ‘Recharged’ titles on Stadia over the coming months. First up: Centipede: Recharged! Checkout our Stadia Review! For those who haven’t had the pleasure of playing this arcade classic, it utilizes a simple formula of shooting […]
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Streaming (Anything) Has Never Been About Fidelity
If there is one place where I think Google may have gone wrong in advertising Stadia early on, it was in touting fidelity as a major reason for gaming in the cloud. Yes, you can certainly throw super high-end hardware (even multiple GPUs!) at the problem of rendering amazing output imagery in the cloud. But, […]
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The Best Tablet for Cloud Gaming: Lenovo Duet Giveaway!
We are waiting to get our hands on the new Lenovo Duet 3. But, while we are waiting, we thought we do a review of what we believe to be the current best tablet for Cloud Gaming (in terms of value per dollar). We think this has got to be the original Lenovo Duet! This […]
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Wavetale – Game Review
Around the end of 2020, Stadia announced a partnership with Thunderful Games in order to develop an exclusive game. Only half a year later, Thunderful Games surprised Stadia users with Wavetale. Announced by Mark Hamill during Thunderful World, the game was showcased as an adventure title. A game with a focus on characters and story. […]
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The Significance of Stadia’s Free Trials
Stadia is often criticized for not doing enough to entice new players to the platform and grow the user base. This is usually followed by a chorus of “they need to bring more games that gamers want to play” or “where is the hardware upgrade?”, but the truth is that Stadia is constantly rolling out […]
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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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Should You Buy Games On Stadia?
Look. I get it… Stadia have been a bit slow to add games to the platform this year (30 of the expected 100+ having come so far); they previously closed down their own in house production studio; they missed some opportunities for some exclusive titles; they don’t often have a major presence at industry events […]
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