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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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Stadia Stats: Platform, Game and Community Numbers
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of Sunday Stadia Stats! This is the weekly blog post where we cover all the latest numbers surrounding the Stadia platform, games and community! Don’t forget that you can find and interact with all the data on our Stats page. It was an incredibly hot news week […]
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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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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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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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Rumor: Two Atari Titles Could be Coming Soon to Stadia
Take this with a big grain of salt! There are a number of ways the community finds rumors about games coming to Stadia. We’ve seen new games in earnings reports, hacks, games getting rated on PEGI and ESRB, Stadia gets mentioned in game press kits, and, sometimes, there are just minor goof-ups that accidentally release […]
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More Evidence Points to Saints Row Possibly Arriving on Google Stadia
WELCOME TO SANTO ILESO Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the heart of the American SouthWest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made. […]
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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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