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Why does Stadia use Linux
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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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Video: Learn about the Cloud Dosage Community Gifting Program

Today we spoke more about the Stadia Dosage Community Gifting Program. The renamed initiative represents our community Patronage program. This program is for Stadia content creators, looking for help finding opportunities to grow their efforts. The program has many great aspects to it. We are proud to share more with you per our video!

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Video: Stadia’s Dependence on Immersive Stream Further Examined

Stadia’s Dependence on Google’s flagship cloud gaming business offering seems to be more appearant after Capcom’s first Immersive Stream game release. More deep diving content on our Stadia Dosage News Youtube channel. There, Stadia contributor MM2K talks today’s Immerstive Stream Capcom blog post. The show aimed to deep dive the ties to how Immersive Stream […]

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Low change porting: 1) Auto DirectX translation, 2) Improved Unity and Unreal support, 3) Cloud playtest and QA for seamless cloud gaming.
Cloud Gaming Technology Enlightenment

Stadia Low Change Porting

Earlier this year, at the Google for Games Developer Summit, the Stadia team confirmed what many folks who are familiar with gaming on Linux suspected, Google and developer partners have been using various known techniques to get Windows games running under Linux for Stadia. Google’s portfolio of techniques involves a continually evolving/maturing set of tools that […]

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Video: Stadia Community Behavior and Platform’s Future Tackled in Open Mic

New Youtube content addresses Stadia community behavior in open mic in hopes to improve decorum amongst gamers. In our Youtube Channel’s ongoing series “SLS Feat MM2K“, we give the community a chance to speak on the biggest Stadia topics of the week. This week’s episode covered Stadia’s likely approach in it’s rollout of the new […]

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Screenshot of Google Stadia page showcasing the world of cloud gaming with various trial games, including City Racers and Pac-Man, available to play without signing 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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Line graph showing Stadia game cross-platform metascores in the realm of cloud gaming, declining from near 100 to below 50 as game rank increases.
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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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Stadia apk Findings 4.18: New Reactions

Over the last couple months, we at StadiaDosage have been doing our own Stadia apk findings for the Stadia Android app to discover potential upcoming features in the app. In an attempt to be responsible human beings, we’d like to note that everything on this list should be taken with a grain of salt as […]

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Why I Love the Stadia Community

All the positive Stadia community activity as of late has once again made one to resurrect/update my previous thoughts on Stadia and the community. Aside from my family and my work (both of which I’m super passionate about) as well as good food and a good beer, technology is one of the things that makes […]

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Stadia ATV apk Findings 4.14: Controller Service

Over the last couple months, we at StadiaDosage have been doing our own Stadia apk findings for the Stadia Android app to discover potential upcoming features in the app. In an attempt to be responsible human beings, we’d like to note that everything on this list should be taken with a grain of salt as […]

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