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r/Stadia Hosting AMA with Dead Drop Studios this Wednesday
Dead Drop Studios is officially bringing one of their games, Outbreak: Contagious Memories, to Stadia in the near future. But, the Studio (predominantly run by a single individual, Evan) is already hard at work at the next generation game in the Outbreak series – Shades of Horror. And, it is already available to demo on […]
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Update for Stadia Enhanced Chrome Extension
Christopher Klay, the man behind the amazing “Stadia Enhanced” Chrome extension that has over 30,000 active users, announced the release of an update this week The update to version 1.20.9 brings with it the following new features as advertised on github: Added Polish translation Updated Spanish translation Updated the settings menu styling Fixed Stadia Database […]
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Updated! Full Android TV Support for the Stadia Controller Rolling Out
Update Aug 19: As of today, on our own CCwGTV devices, you no longer need to use the trick below in order to control the CCwGTV with the Stadia controller. The behavior of the controller when exiting the app has changed! As of Today, when you exit the Stadia app using the Stadia controller (pressing […]
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How Many Hours have Stadia Games Streamed?
Just over a year ago, I published a guest article on the sadly retired TheStadia.Life blog doing a quantitative estimate about how many hours Stadia has Streamed for certain games. This was partly inspired by GeForce Now sharing that it had streamed 150M hours of its entire library in the past 12 months. In this […]
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Stadia is Testing Mission Based Trials
This news broke earlier today on GameDeveloper.com that Stadis testing mission based free trials. It looks like Stadia is testing a new way to limit Trials. Stadia is nearing 150 free trials on its platform where prospective players can test out a game in the browser with just a click of the mouse. For now, […]
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New! Launch Stadia Games from Search Results
It looks like Google has rolled out a significant update to its search results for games. Now, when you search for a game, you can press “play” on your favorite cloud gaming service that has the game in order to get taken to a page to start up the title. For titles on Stadia, pressing […]
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Stadia Rollout to Turkey Appears Imminent
In our latest Stadia .apk analysis, we discovered there was a new folder with string translations to Turkish (and looks like 9to5 Google found a different set of Turkish translations in a different spot in the apk next to new MX translations). This is very highly suggestive that a rollout of the platform to Turkey […]
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Party Streaming Comes to Stadia
Google Stadia is rolling out big improvements to Live Streaming with enhancements to existing functionality along with new features. This news was broken by our friends at XDA-Developers. Let’s start with the big news! Stadia is rolling out Party Stream and it’s exactly what it says on the tin, the ability to share the game […]
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LG Partners With Google to Offer Three Months of Stadia Pro
LG is partnering with Google Stadia to offer three months of access to Stadia Pro for both new and existing LG Smart TV owners. This limited-time promotion is now available and applies to LG TVs operating webOS 5.0 or higher in the twenty-two countries where Stadia is available. LG TV owners who claim their free Stadia Pro subscription […]
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Google Stadia’s First Half of 2022 in Review
In retrospect, 2021 was a lower-key year for Google Stadia, with fewer major announcements regarding the platform itself compared to 2020. While several important new platform features dropped (e.g. Android TV and LG TV support, State Share, Direct Touch, Controller tethering, Ubisoft+ rollout, Public Parities) many users eagerly awaited even more proof that the platform […]
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