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Google has confirmed that while it is going to stay in the video games industry, it will not offer a Stadia-style streaming service to its clients."We are not offering that streaming option because it was tied to Stadia itself," said Jack Buser, Google Cloud's director of Game Industry solutions to Axios. "So, unfortunately, when we decided to not move forward with Stadia, that sort of offering could no longer be offered as well."Buser also added, "We are at our best when we’re helping other people build…

When Google shut down Stadia in January, it also wound down third-party access to the underlying cloud gaming technology. Google's Jack Buser tells Axios' Stephen Totilo his company is no longer offering Immersive Stream for Games as it was "tied to Stadia itself." A provider can't simply pick up the pieces, to put it another way. Only a handful of brands ever used Immersive Stream, and then mainly as a promotional tool. AT&T let mobile subscribers play Batman: Arkham Knight and Control, while Capcom offered a…

Two years ago, I wrote a reasonably prescient editorial about how the writing was on the wall for Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia — and how the company was now hoping to sell its white label streaming technology to other companies instead of building out its own Netflix of games.But it seems that, when Google killed off Stadia, it threw away that technology, too. “We are not offering that streaming option, because it was tied to Stadia itself,” he told Axios’ Stephen Totilo. “So unfortunately, when we decided to not…

Free trials are being issued for alternative cloud gaming services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Amazon Luna following the shutdown of Google Stadia on January 18th. As reported by 9to5Google, Game publisher Ubisoft has emailed a one-month trial for a GeForce Now Priority membership to Ubisoft account holders today, offering Nvidia’s game streaming service as a way to play Ubisoft games now that Stadia is no longer available. The Priority tier for GeForce Now typically costs $10 a month and includes streaming up to 1080p…

Now that Stadia is gone, Bungie is steering players toward NVIDIA's GeForce Now. The developer has offered Destiny 2 users a free month on the game streaming service, sending unique codes to each user, according to an email seen by 9to5Google. "We managed to snag some free codes for NVIDIA's high-performance cloud gaming platform," Bungie wrote. "Redeem your one-month code of a GeForce Now priority membership, for free."  Destiny 2 featured prominently in Stadia's marketing up until the end, but also figured in GeForce…

Google Stadia, the cloud service once heralded as the future of gaming, has officially shut down. The shut-off is the final nail in a service that had many interesting ideas, but ultimately failed to make a compelling pitch to general video game consumers.Though Stadia's ultimate shutdown was announced in September 2022, many industry observers point to the shuttering of its first-party studios in early 2021 as the turning point for the service. The move surprised many, especially given that Google tapped…

The Galaxy Watch 5 will soon allow you to view security cameras through SmartThings. Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoSamsung announced an upcoming update to SmartThings that lets you peek in on a security camera feed directly from your smartwatch. The update will roll out to Galaxy Watch devices, including the Galaxy Watch 4, Watch 4 Classic, Galaxy Watch 5, and Watch 5 Pro.The update promises to make checking in on security cameras “more convenient,” but only if you’re using Samsung’s SmartThings app to access your smart…

Goodbye, Stadia. Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoNow is an appropriate time to but out your trumpet for the long-awaited demise of Google’s cloud-gaming service, Stadia. The shuttered service’s website makes it clear: Stadia officially shut down on Jan. 18, 2023. Granted, we all knew it was coming. It’s been about three months since we learned Google was planning to shut things down. Stadia didn’t perform relative to other cloud gaming services, nor did it have the backing of its parent company the way Microsoft is pushing…

Cloud Dissipates Google’s beleaguered cloud gaming service, Stadia, is officially no more — The big red button was hit on the servers last night at 23:59 PT / 02:59 ET / 07:59 BT, bringing to an end a costly experiment that on paper had some interesting and engaging concepts, that simply didn’t translate into real, financially successful benefits for the internet giant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Wy_pWscsk Launching on November 19, 2020, Google Stadia was an endeavor to make a massive library of online games…

Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. Maybe more than a few. Okay, it made a lot of promises it didn’t keep and said a lot of things that look pretty laughable in hindsight and totally pulled the rug out from under its indie developers. We did our best to warn you! And yet, I don’t think Stadia will be remembered poorly now it’s gone — because in the end, Google did right by its customers. Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down a service right.I can’t remember a company ever…