Stadia

Cyberpunk 2077 players are requesting its developer CD Projekt makes save files from Stadia available on the cloud. The…

Become a supporter of Eurogamer and you can view the site completely ad-free, as well as gaining exclusive access to articles, podcasts and conversations that will bring you closer to the team, the stories, and the games we all love. "Can CD Projekt Red PLEASE make cloud saving available for Stadia as well? Cyberpunk 2077 players request Stadia cloud saves from CD Projekt"I care more about my save game than a game refund."

A Red Dead Redemption player with almost 6,000 hours logged on Google Stadia is begging Rockstar to allow character transfers after the news of the ...

If you aren't aware, once Google shuts down its Stadia service on January 18, 2023, ItsColourTV's progress will all be erased from existence, meaning they'll need to start a new save file on another platform - with all 5,907 hours (approximately 246 days) going to waste. Rockstar, if you're reading this, do our guy a favor and let them transfer their character just this once. "No, you don't understand how seriously pissed off I am," the tweet read, alongside a screenshot that shows that they've put 5,907 hours into Red Dead Redemption on Google's gaming service.

While other cloud gaming platforms used a variety of business models that allowed consumers to either play games they already owned or those made available via ...

[mandate](https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/new-york-follows-california-mandating-zero-emissions-vehicles-by-2035/) requiring all new cars sold in the state to be EVs by 2035. [OpenAI’s DALL-E](https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/dall-e-future-ai-art), the slew of AI-generated image tools that followed, and what the future looks like for images based on text input. This followed a [damning Business Insider report](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-stadia-stream-plan-partnerships-peloton-bungie-gaming-service-2022-2) in February 2022 that said Google had “deprioritized” the consumer side of the business in favor of trying to salvage its streaming tech as an enterprise business. [wrote](https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656) on July 29, “Stadia is not shutting down. Each has a dreamlike quality that makes you feel like you’re looking at something incredible while also being under the influence of drugs (not that I would know). Silicon Valley is no longer the sole hub where tech lives and thrives, with tech scenes flourishing in cities like New York and Los Angeles. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro.” Now, two months later, the inevitable has in fact happened. Google had a rough 2020 as it tried to attract new users to Stadia on the promise of exclusive games, big first-party releases like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077, and an expanding feature set that would fulfill those lofty promises made a year prior. Although companies have been trying to crack game streaming for years, no company arrived on the scene with as much ambition as Google back in 2019. For many industry watchers, it was the inevitable and unfortunate conclusion to arguably Google’s riskiest gaming gamble. And that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. Stadia, Google’s foray into cloud gaming, will shut down in January, marking the end of a pretty brutal three years.

The video game streaming platform will be closed down in January 2023, with Google offering refunds to those who bought Stadia.

Players will continue to have access to their games library and play through January 18 2023 so they can complete final play sessions. “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store. And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service,” he said.

Once Stadia shuts down in January, players want to be able to use their controllers on PC rather than let them go to waste, asking Google to update ...

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Google is shutting down its cloud gaming service Stadia after 3 years of unsuccessful attempts to attract players. The servers will be live for players ...

[Kotaku](https://kotaku.com/stadia-leadership-praised-development-studios-for-great-1846281384) believes that the trigger was the announcement of the acquisition of ZeniMax Media by Microsoft. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-26/google-video-game-unit-stadia-struggled-to-be-googley-enough), Google did not understand the game business and were just wasting time and money. One of the reasons that players and the media have repeatedly pointed out to Google is the lack of interesting games and exclusives.

Google announced it would close its Stadia cloud gaming service and has announced it will refund gamers who bought its Stadia controller and other add-on ...

After its announcement in 2019, Google planned a “cloud gaming” revolution similar to Netflix’s approach to movies. “Stadia is arguably ahead of its time and clearly shows that a lot of work is still needed for true cloud gaming services to fly,” he says. Gaming still a ‘huge opportunity’ for Google despite Stadia shutdown

Come January, Google will be shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service. In some ways, the move isn't much of a surprise — as my colleagues have pointed ...

The company said it was coming to all Stadia titles in “2022 and beyond.” With 200+ titles currently available, we expect to have another 100+ games added to the platform this year, and currently have 50 games available to claim in Stadia Pro.” [made it even less expensive to join the service](https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22790946/google-stadia-birthday-premiere-edition-price-free). I get the sense that they want to scale slowly and see where this goes.” Now, there almost certainly won’t be a single game launching on the service in 2023. Gwen Frey, the developer of Google Stadia launch title Kine, 2023 is really kind of where we’re aiming our sights.” “It’s not like Google cancels every fucking thing they make.” Spoiler: Raymond would leave Google just over a year later when it If you’ve been listening to what the company said about the service, though, you’d be forgiven for being blindsided. There will be some coming out every year, and more and more each year.” Come January, Google will be shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service.

Stadia players will still have access to their games until the service closes in four months' time and refunds will also be issued.

Google said it remained "deeply committed to gaming" and would "continue to invest in new tools, technologies and platforms". "Players will continue to have access to their games library and play through January 18, 2023 so they can complete final play sessions," he said. Stadia players will still have access to their games until the service closes in four months' time and refunds will also be issued.

Google axed the streaming gaming product three years after it was introduced as the next revolution in gaming, allowing gamers to play the latest games without ...

And who could forget Google Glass, which faltered as a consumer focused wearable computer but still exists for enterprise users. The consumer version of its Facebook rival, Google+, was shut down in April 2019. “We remain deeply committed to gaming, and we will continue to invest in new tools, technologies and platforms that power the success of developers, industry partners, cloud customers and creators.”

Closeup of two hands holding a purple Google Stadia gamepad, with a blurred monitor in Photo by Olly Curtis/Future Publishing via Getty Images. Has anything in ...

[announced The Finals](https://www.polygon.com/23373768/embark-studios-new-game-the-finals-preview-free-to-play-shooter-alpha), a multiplayer shooter whose complicated, destruction-based physics engine is handled on the server side. When Ouya’s vision of bringing Android mobile games to home theater setups imploded in the same year, none that crowdfunded console’s backers got anything back. [paid eight figures](https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1365381358416232454), according [to some reports](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-26/google-video-game-unit-stadia-struggled-to-be-googley-enough), to bring established console and PC titles, like Red Dead Redemption 2, The Division, or the latest NBA 2K, to their platform — at full price. “Battle royale games can go from hundreds of players today to thousands of players tomorrow.” From the GDC 2019 announcement, Stadia was marketed like a finished product. Has anything in video gaming launched hotter, and returned to Earth harder, than Google Stadia?

Few thought Google's troubled streaming service, Stadia, might ever become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but almost no one expected it to shut ...

[As of yesterday](https://twitter.com/DestinyBulletn/status/1575545958158725121), there were more concurrent Destiny players on Stadia than Halo Infinite players on Steam. “I don’t want to stay under the same leadership,” they said. “We just learned about Stadia shutting down and have begun conversations about next steps for our players,” Bungie [posted](https://twitter.com/DestinyBulletn/status/1575558847250411521) on its support forum yesterday. [one of Stadia’s first big gets](https://kotaku.com/sources-destiny-2-is-coming-to-google-stadia-getting-1835270126), with Bungie making a big push to bring streaming players into the fold of its sprawling space MMO. “It’s funny, most of the world views Stadia as that gimmick that nobody bothered with,” Both games were a key selling point for Stadia, and [Bloomberg previously reported](https://kotaku.com/report-stadia-blew-millions-on-red-dead-redemption-2-a-1846367180) that Google shelled out tens of millions to secure those and other big blockbusters, the purchases of which it will now be refunding to all players. “We knew Stadia was on the chopping board but I guess we still had hopes that it was so much investment that it was cheaper to keep it going, even with no new games, than to kill it,” one current employee told Kotaku. The important update turned out to be that Google was killing Stadia by the beginning of next year, according to two current employees who wish to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press about company business. [shared a screenshot on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/xrcea4/thanks_phil_harrison_thats_3_failed_launches_for/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) of a meeting invite from Harrison. “We were also due to launch Soccer Story on Stadia in November, and that has money attached to it that we’re meant to receive. “We just had communication with [our partner manager] earlier in the week going through some next steps, so there was no indication that anything was changing.” Studios have partner managers at Stadia to help with the process of porting games, getting them certified, and any other issues that may come up during the collaboration.