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Google is giving anyone who has a WiFi-only Stadia controller lying around an additional year to convert it to Bluetooth. The deadline to do this was previously until the , but Google is now extending it to December 31, 2024.Google Stadia, its cloud gaming service, at the beginning of this year. Most customers who bought digital games through the Google Store got , but some physical hardware such as Stadia’s controller that connected directly to WiFi, is still out there. Enabling Bluetooth on Stadia controllers will let…

Google has extended the ability to switch Google Stadia controllers from Stadia Wi-Fi mode to Bluetooth mode, allowing them to connect with other devices such as Windows 10, 11, and MacOS 13 PCs with Steam, as well as ChromeOS and Android.According to the Stadia's controller webpage, Stadia controllers can now be switched to Bluetooth mode until December 31, 2024. Any controllers that aren't switched by that time will be unable to make the change and they essentially become dead weight. That's because…

If you haven’t enabled Bluetooth on your Stadia controller yet, you don’t need to rush. Google has extended the deadline for when its controllers will no longer work wirelessly from the end of this year to December 31st, 2024, as shown on its website (via @wario64). Screenshot by Emma Roth / The VergeGoogle previously gave users until December 31st, 2023 to complete the switch, but the extra time means people will have more of a chance to convert their controllers if they haven’t already. The controllers will only work as…

In September 2023, YouTube first announced that it was bringing gaming to its platform with its new Playables segment. It was considered a move back into gaming for Google after it stopped its Stadia gaming service in January 2023. After two months since it began testing the feature with a select group, YouTube Playables is finally here and it has been launched with more than 30 mini-games or arcade-like games. Some of the titles include Angry Birds Showdown, Brain Out, Daily Solitaire, The Daily Crossword, and more.…

Last updated: November 22nd, 2023 at 06:06 UTC+01:00 Some interesting titbits have popped up in the ongoing Epic Games vs Google trial. According to the latest emails that have popped up, Google tried to buy out Epic Games even before Stadia, the dead cloud-gaming platform, was launched. Google thought of this idea of buying Epic Games in 2018, and in fact, it teamed up with Tencent to buy full ownership of Epic Games. As per The Verge, Google was working on ‘Project Elektra' which would have seen Google buying a…

Google Stadia , but one of the game streaming service's few exclusives will soon return from the ether. , Gylt, the , is coming to Steam, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series and Xbox One. It'll hit those platforms on July 6th. Gylt is a third-person survival horror game from Rime studio Tequila Works. You play as Sally, who has to sneak around her gloomy town and the dark corridors of her school while evading monsters and looking for her missing cousin. I played a few hours of Gylt on Stadia and enjoyed my time with…

Image Source : GOOGLE PLAY STORE Google to shut its G Suite app Currents by July 2023 Google has announced that it is set to discontinue the Currents, the platform which came into existence in 2019 as a replacement for Google Plus for G Suite users. As per The Verge report, the company will start to wind up the Currents on July 5, and the data available for export…

The VP seems to have left following Stadia’s downturn Phil Harrison, the former head of Stadia at Google, has reportedly left the company. A new report from Business Insider said that Harrison left Google around the time when it shut down the Stadia streaming service. Though no official statement’s been made as of this writing, Harrison’s LinkedIn does reflect the change, with his departure from Google marked at April 2023. Harrison has been around the games industry for quite a while, working at both Sony and Microsoft…

Harrison’s quiet departure marks a muted end to his time at the search giant. He joined the company in January 2018, and while he didn’t specify what he was working on at the time, it was easy to guess that he was probably doing something with gaming: Harrison worked at Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment) for 15 years, was on the advisory board for the cloud gaming service Gaikai, and led Microsoft’s Xbox and Interactive Entertainment business in Europe from 2012 to 2015. And lo and behold, a…

Netflix is going to try to succeed where Google failed. In a briefing with reporters that included The Verge, Leanne Loombe, Netflix’s vice president of external games, confirmed that the company is “underway” in its work to build out a cloud gaming service. Loombe did note that, while work is in progress, the company is “very early” in that work, so we shouldn’t expect an imminent announcement. “We are very early in that side of our journey. We do believe that cloud gaming will enable us to provide that…