Stadia Loses Part of Key Staff to Jade Raymond's Team
Google has parted ways with more employees overseeing Google Stadia. John Justice, vice president and head of product, has left the company's ranks, and a number of others have joined Haven Studios, founded by Jade Raymond.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 5, 2021
xCloud Exclusivity as Microsoft's Bargaining Chip for Reduced Profit Margin
Thanks to the Epic Games vs. Apple court battle, we now know that Microsoft was planning to cut its 30% profit margin on Xbox game sales in exchange for exclusive streaming rights on xCloud. Those plans have been abandoned, at least for now.
video games
May 5, 2021
Xbox Game Pass Streaming Will Let Us Play PC Games Too
Responding to an Internet user's question on Twitter, Phil Spencer - the head of Xbox - noted that PC games will sooner or later be available for xCloud streaming on Xbox Game Pass. For now, however, the priority is on console titles.
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Bart Swiatek
April 20, 2021
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Introduce Backward Compatibility on Android
Microsoft has announced that from today the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate service enables us to play last-gen games, via backward compatibility and cloud, on mobile devices.
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Hubert Sledziewski
March 31, 2021
Remote Play Together Beta Ends; Valve Announces Sale and Event on Steam
Steam finished testing a new version of Remote Play Together. From now on, users can play selected titles with friends who do not have an account on Valve's platform. The company intends to celebrate the fact with a special sale and event.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 23, 2021
GeForce NOW Subscription Price Increase
Nvidia informed that the GeForce NOW streaming platform has been around for over a year now. As a result, they have decided to replace the Founders subscription with a more expensive Priority subscription for new users.
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Bart Swiatek
March 19, 2021
EVE Anywhere Lets You Play Eve Online in Browser
The team at CCP Games launched the beta of EVE Anywhere, a streaming service that lets you play EVE Online in the browser.
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Adrian Werner
March 16, 2021
Xbox Will Run Steam and Epic Games Store Titles, Including Death Stranding
The new version of the Microsoft Edge browser for Xbox consoles will enable us to use platforms originally intended for PC, such as Steam and Epic Games Store.
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Karol Laska
March 9, 2021
Steam Remote Play Together Available to Everyone
A new update to the Steam platform has brought a full version of the Remote Play Together feature. This allows local multiplayer games to be played remotely.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
March 3, 2021
Microsoft Tests Full HD in xCloud
Microsoft plans to expand its xCloud streaming platform. The first screenshot showing the game running in Full HD has appeared online.
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Adrian Piotrowski
March 1, 2021
Google Rumored to Have Canceled Several Emerging Stadia Games
Google has canceled a number of games over the past year that were due to appear on the Stadia streaming platform. Among them were Hideo Kojima's horror game, an action game by a former Ubisoft employee, and a sequel to Journey to the Savage Planet.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 28, 2021
Failure of Google Stadia According to Former and Current Employees
Lack of understanding of the industry, spending huge amounts of money on ports of major titles, and a rushed launch - these are a few reasons for the failure of Google's streaming platform Stadia as reported by several former and current employees of the company.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 27, 2021
Steam Tests Option to Play Together Without an Account
Valve has started testing a new Steam client. The beta enables us to check out an enhanced version of the Remote Play Together service, which lets us invite people without an account on the platform to play together.
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Jacob Blazewicz
February 25, 2021
Google Cannot Fix a Bug in Its Own Stadia Game
At the beginning of the month, a game called Journey to the Savage Planet was added to Google Stadia's offer, but a few days later a bug appeared in the game which made it impossible to continue playing. The bigger problem is that there is nobody who can fix it.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 23, 2021
Electronic Arts Patents Instant Game Launch Technology
Electronic Arts is working on a new technology to allow games to run instantly without having to download them first. It wants to use data streaming for this purpose.
video games
February 19, 2021
Google Blames ZeniMax Acquisition for Closure of Stadia's Devteams
According to a recent report from Kotaku, the closure of studios developing games for Google Stadia could have been influenced by Microsoft's buying streak and recent acquisitions of ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks.
Tech
February 17, 2021
Google Stadia Shuts Down In-house Studios to Pursue Other Goals
Google has closed its two studios in Montreal and Los Angeles. Stadia will continue to offer streaming of games from other publishers, but will no longer receive any original productions, other than those already in development.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 2, 2021
Stadia Pro With 30-minute Trial Without Our Credit Card Number
Google offers a half-hour trial version of the Stadia Pro subscription without requiring a credit card number. But does that make any sense?
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Paul Musiolik
December 22, 2020
Stadia and GeForce NOW May Save Cyberpunk 2077 Players With Weak Hardware
You're worried your hardware won't be able to handle Cyberpunk 2077? Google Stadia and GeForce NOW are here to help.
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Tom Borys
December 10, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 Launch Schedule in GeForce NOW Revealed
Collaboration between CD Projekt RED with Nvidia takes shape. Today it was announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will appear in GeForce NOW on the day of its release.
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Agnes Adamus
December 7, 2020