RIP Google Stadia: the most recent information on the discontinued cloud gaming service

Google introduced on September twenty ninth, 2022, that its Stadia cloud recreation streaming service will likely be terminated in late January 2023. You can not make purchases by way of the platform, and notably, Google is providing refunds to avid gamers for all the pieces that they could have bought throughout its three-year existence: controllers, video games, and all.

Despite coming to an in depth (which many predicted given Google’s tendency to kill tasks as an alternative of letting them fizzle out), Google arguably succeeded at delivering on its promise of bringing cloud recreation streaming to a bunch of screens earlier than Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon had formal plans to do the identical. It was additionally novel within the business for being a platform that didn’t require any {hardware} buy-in on the facet of the person; you may plug a controller you already owned into your pc and get began by launching Google Chrome. Here’s our unique evaluate from 2019, for outdated instances’ sake.

We’re having a look again and a stay up for dig extra into Stadia whereas we nonetheless can. You’ll discover all posts in regards to the loss of life of Stadia — and presumably the remnants of it that may stay on — rounded up on this StoryStream.