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Stadia Again Leading Competition in GFK Top Game Availability
In the United Kingdom, GFK (Growth From Knowledge), is a consumer sales tracking service that keeps tabs on Top 40 video games sales each week. Gaming journalism hubs provide access to this top sales list each and every week. We can report that Stadia is again leading the competition in terms of GFK top game […]
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35 New Stadia Game Trials Released: Free to Play
Thanks to u/jackl85 on Reddit for the discovery! 35 new Stadia game trials have launched – these are completely free to play timed demos playable in any browser! Combined with the existing 26 trials, that gives a total of 61 games that can now be tried for free on Stadia! Here is the list of […]
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References to Stadia Instances Using NVIDIA GPUs Appear on Stadia’s Github
WARNING: before shouting from the rooftops that Stadia “Gen 2” hardware is clearly imminent, keep in mind that the evidence described below is far far from an official announcement of new hardware going into production. Stadia Linux instances with NVIDIA drivers running on top of NVIDIA hardware could be used for the purposes of testing, […]
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Google Hiring to “Expand Stadia and Immersive Stream to More Devices”
Matt Joseph, an engineering manager on the Google Stadia and Immersive Stream (for games) team, tweeted today that Google is looking to hire to accelerate the expansion of Stadia on more devices – presumably TVs and connected devices. You can check out the job posting here and if you happen to be qualified and interested, […]
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Eleven New Stadia Free Trials Are Live
In today’s This Week on Stadia Post, the Stadia team announced that no less than nine eleven new free trials are now live on Stadia! That makes for 26 in total! The new trials include: It’s great to see some really big titles as part of these new Stadia free trials. This includes Assassin’s Creed […]
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Capcom publishes Resident Evil Village “Online Streaming Demo” using Stadia’s tech
Earlier this year, AT&T announced that they were one the first companies to use Stadia’s tech to promote their own offerings. Using Stadia’s white label system, Google Immersive Stream for Games, AT&T added cloud versions of Batman Arkham Knight and Control Ultimate Edition. This way, their costumers can play those games using their devices. Just […]
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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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Browse the Stadia Catalog Without an Account
Back at the beginning of may, we reported that the newly re-formatted individual game pages on the Stadia website could now be viewed by users without the need to log-in. We’ve since been linking to these pages like crazy from throughout our website. Now it looks like you can quickly browse the entire Stadia catalog […]
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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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What Caused Stadia Growth to Explode in Late 2020?
One of the fastest ever periods of growth for the Stadia platform and community was during November and December 2020. While there have been plenty of periods of very healthy growth since then (including November and December 2021), nothing has quite matched the explosiveness of late 2020. This has made many people ask: what caused […]
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