Stadia Platform
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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Stadia Dosage Panel: Stadia in Mexico Samsung Game Hub & More
Checkout another deep diving discussion from our Stadia Dosage panel for Weekly Checkup . This week they discuss numerous topics. First, Stadia’s expansion to Mexico. They also talk the impact of Samsung’s Game Hub on the future of cloud gaming. Then they go over their most/least favorite Stadia items of the week.
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Stadia Mexico Territory Expansion is Coming
Watch this article ▲ At Stadia Dosage, we’ve advocated for a while now that the best thing Google Stadia can do to grow the platform and show their commitment to it is to expand to new territories. We’ve shown why we believe that a significant reason for the growth of the platform in December 2020 […]
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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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Stadia has 75 Free Game Trials
Just last week, we noted that Stadia had added 35 new game trials to the platform, bringing the total at the time to 61. This week, Stadia has increased that number to 75 free game trials! You can see them all for yourself here if you are logged into Stadia or here if you are […]
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Stadia Chromebook Perk Gives You 3 Months of Stadia Pro
Chromebooks are great devices to run Stadia on. We just reviewed our first Chrome OS detachable tablet, the Lenovo Duet, which we are in the midst of raffling away. One of the points we make in the review is that, unlike many Android devices, Chromebooks get their updates straight from Google (every 4 weeks!), which […]
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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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