Stadia Platform
Is an Ubisoft 1st Party Cloud Service Coming Powered by Google Immersive Stream??
Warning! This article is speculation. It’s a thought experiment. No jumping to conclusions allowed. =) When Assassin’s Creed Mirage wasn’t immediately announced for Stadia, our minds began to search for reasons. After thinking about the matter, we came up with a list of possible explanations. We still think this is a pretty good list a […]
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Stadia Features – Crowd Play
What is Crowd Play? Next up in our “Stadia Features” series is Crowd Play. With Crowd Play on Stadia, your YouTube viewers get the chance to jump into the live stream that they’re watching and play alongside you. If you thought that Crowd Choice gets viewers involved in a stream, then Crowd Play will take […]
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Stadia’s Role in the Live Service Market
In March of 2014, I was a new father. My baby girl was only a month old and Hearthstone had just launched. Based on the Warcraft series, this one game was the first of what would become a storm of digital collectible card games. It was original and had an amazing presentation. The game was […]
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Many Thousands of Players Try Ubisoft+ Free on Stadia
Last week, Ubisoft+ went free for a month (until October 10) on Stadia and other platforms. We were curious to see if we’d be able to discern the effect from this in our Stadia Stats – particularly in the game leaderboard data. Well, a week has gone by, and we most definitely can see an […]
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Thumbs Up For Reactions – Rolling Out Now
In one of our recent APK findings posts we found code that suggested reactions would be coming to the Explore page on the Stadia App. Well today is the day for the reactions to be released. They are now rolling out to the app; so make sure that you have updated to the latest version […]
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Stadia Rolling Out 1440p Resolution Settings
Those who read our apk findings will remember that last week, we mentioned that 1440p streaming was being worked on. Today, the option has been released. As usual, the feature will be slowly rolling out for Stadia users, so some people might have to wait. Spotted by Stadia Dosage’s good friend Clive Illenden on Twitter, […]
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Stadia Has an Amazing Opportunity to Use Indies as Mascots
Lots of things make a gaming platform successful. Many will say “games, games games!” and there is a lot of truth to that. Perhaps equally as important as games though, is the characters. A potential buyer can’t look at gameplay and necessarily decide if it looks fun or worth a purchase. They can, however, look […]
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Everything We Know About the Future of Stadia… It’s a Lot!
Welp… this article didn’t age well at all did it?! If you aren’t aware, Stadia is, in fact, shutting down on January 18th, 2023 – no matter how bright the future looked (or didn’t). Read on and enjoy the laughs from your position of situational irony. Can we find all of this in London? If […]
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Stadia Controller Review
Before we begin, if you’re new to Stadia it’s important to make this clear: you DO NOT NEED to buy this controller to play games on Stadia. You can use a Playstation, Xbox or Nintendo controller. You can also use your keyboard and mouse, or you can use your phone as a controller. If you’re […]
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Gaming Energy Costs [Comparision]
There have been a few discussions recently around the gaming energy costs within the household. This is an especially hot topic with the increase in energy costs that are affecting us all. So, I decided to carry out a few tests using my household hardware: Hardware Max Power (Watts) Asus X555L LaptopEizo EV240 Monitor 45w47w […]
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