Google Stadia’s Latest Developer Acquisition Is Baffling and Foolish

Typhoon Studios has been snapped up to develop games for the Google Stadia.

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Google Blames Developers for Promised 4K/60fps Stadia Farce

Many Stadia games aren’t running at 4K/60fps. Google points towards the way…

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Google’s Latest Stadia Policy Won’t Help Platform’s Miserable Launch

Google Stadia reveals latest policy. Discounted games bought via Stadia Pro won’t… The post Google’s Latest Stadia Policy Won’t Help Platform’s Miserable Launch appeared first on CCN.com

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Google’s Overpriced Game Pricing Adds to Stadia Launch Disaster

Google Stadia launches today. Google is charging $60 for games older than a year. The launch game pricing does little to help an already shaky launch. The Google Stadia launch already feels like it’s been orchestrated by a two-bit gaggle of impostors with ambitions of making a splash in the cloistered gaming platform market.

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Google Stadia Review Roundup – Impressive Tech Woefully Undercooked

Reviews for the Google Stadia are here ahead of tomorrow’s release. The consensus is one of excellent technology let down by a lack of features, games, and functionality. There’s a risk that Google may axe Stadia before it’s had a chance to find its feet.

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Google’s Impressive Launch Lineup Gives Stadia a Fighting Chance

Google has announced the Stadia launch lineup of games and it isn’t half bad. Among them are Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and the first Stadia exclusive, Gylt. Will they be enough to tempt early adopters to the platform? A week away from the release of Google’s first proper foray into gaming, the […] The post Google’s Impressive Launch Lineup Gives Stadia a Fighting Chance appeared first on CCN.com

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Steam Code Mine Leak Hints At Valve’s Cloud Gaming Ambition

Mined code shows Valve is asking partners to sign a ‘Steam Cloud Gaming Addendum’. Company looks to pierce into cloud gaming market. Steam could prove disastrous for Google Stadia. Fresh of last week’s announcement that EA is bringing its games back to Steam, it looks like Valve is gearing up to pierce into cloud gaming.

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Sony slashes price of PS Now as cloud gaming war approaches

Sony today revealed it’s repackaging PlayStation Now, halving the price and adding several popular current-gen games. Now the service is priced to compete with its upcoming cloud gaming competition, and it might also survive the transition to the next generation.

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Apple Arcade will reportedly set you back just $5 a month

A new report offers more details about Apple’s rather opaque plans for its game subscription service, Arcade. If the details are accurate, an Arcade subscription could be one of the more cost-effective gaming plans out there.

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Everything Google revealed about Stadia during the Reddit AMA

Stadia, Google’s attempt to enter the gaming industry via the cloud, has been teased several times through the last few months. Yesterday, we learned more about the platform via a Reddit AMA — and while it’s not all good news, it’s not all bad either.

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Google Stadia Heralds Console Apocalypse as 4,000 Devs Clamor to Join

If there was any doubt that Google Stadia had the ammunition to single-handedly upend the gaming industry and end the video game console as we know it, they should be laid to rest. More than 4,000 developers have registered their interest to sign up to the Stadia Partners scheme with an eye on releasing games […] The post Google Stadia Heralds Console Apocalypse as 4,000 Devs Clamor to Join appeared first on CCN Markets

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Google Reveals Key Details of its 4K 60fps Gaming Challenger Stadia

By CCN Markets:  Google Stadia will be the first open challenger to dominant Sony or Microsoft in years. Nintendo has always continued in the fringes, ever since its highs in the era of $70 Nintendo 64 games, while Microsoft and Sony have unwittingly built the modern gaming world’s online architecture.

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Ubisoft announces its own game streaming service, Uplay+

Ubisoft found a comfy seat on the top of the bandwagon, because it’s launched its own streaming service, called Uplay+. By itself, this wouldn’t be earth-shaking news: the company is joining the ranks of several companies, offering access to a library of games in exchange for a monthly payment.

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Google’s cloud gaming service requires a $129 bundle to play at launch

Google today revealed more information about Stadia, its ambitious gaming service, in a special Connect show. We learned that Google was tossing away their one single advantage — namely, that you’re going to have to purchase a $129 not-console in order to play it at launch.

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Stadia’s Google Assistant integration is the gaming feature I never knew I needed

Google today revealed just what kind of hat it intends to throw in the gaming ring — a cloud streaming service called Stadia. Most of the news was a lot of blue sky development jargon, but it did reveal one thing about Stadia that’ll probably do more to help gamers than any new controller or lack of latency: a dedicated walkthrough button.

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Google announces Stadia, its cross-platform game streaming service

At the 2019 Game Developers Conference (FDC) in San Francisco today, Google unveiled Stadia, its all-you-can-play game streaming service. It’s launching sometime this year, first in the US, Canada, UK, and most of Europe.

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