Enlarge / The official Stadia Controller in “clearly white.” (credit: Google) In arguably the first good news for Stadia in 2021, Google’s beleaguered game-streaming service has finally landed on a single company’s TVs—and only those manufactured in 2020 and beyond. That’s not necessarily a reason to strike up the band and throw a “Stadia is […]
Enlarge / Unity unites with Parsec in a $320 million deal. (credit: Aurich Lawson) The parent company of Unity, one of the most popular game development engines in the world, has made arguably its biggest acquisition of another gaming company yet. The deal, finalized on Tuesday, sees Unity taking control of Parsec, a peer-to-peer game-streaming […]
Enlarge (credit: Google ) As part of a Stadia keynote presentation today, Google announced several moves designed to attract more games and publishers to its streaming gaming service. Chief among these is a more generous revenue split for publishers on the platform. Starting in October, Google will only take a 15 percent cut of the […]
Enlarge / Xbox Game Streaming works on a wide variety of devices—and they all now benefit from Microsoft’s upgraded servers. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Microsoft) Microsoft’s bullishness about Xbox as a cloud-gaming platform got a lot bolder on Tuesday with the surprise launch.of a previously teased change: an upgrade to the server […]
Enlarge / As we learn more about Stadia’s inner workings, we’ve begun adding some “flair” to this Stadia-branded PUBG parachute. (credit: PUBG / Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) In the wake of Google shutting down its Stadia Games & Entertainment (SG&E) group, leaks about the underwhelming game-streaming service have started to emerge. A Friday Bloomberg […]
Enlarge (credit: PUBG Corp) This isn’t quite an entry in our long-running “Google kills product” series, but it’s close: Google has confirmed plans to shut down its dedicated game studios, as attached to its beleaguered Google Stadia cloud-gaming service. Kotaku editor Stephen Totilo confirmed the news on Monday ahead of Google posting its own formal […]
Embossed text, ’cause it’s fancy. [credit: Kyle Orland ] After over a year of being barred from iOS, Google’s Stadia game-streaming service will soon be available on the mobile platform as a progressive Web application running through a browser, Google announced today. Testing for the mobile Web version of the service will begin this week, […]