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August 21, 2019

Cyberpunk 2077 Confirmed For Google Stadia

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Just before Gamescom opened, Google announced a slate of upcoming titles for their Stadia video game streaming service, and confirmed at last that 2020’s most anticipated title, Cyberpunk 2077, would be on that service. The problem is, it won’t be immediate. From CD Projekt Red, creators of The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action-adventure RPG in the grungy neon world of Night City. You’ll be playing V, a merc seeking what is rumored to be forbidden tech that could help humans live indefinitely. That’s the main goal, but as in The Witcher 3, there will be plenty of side distractions along the way. Cyberpunk 2077 will show up for Playstation 4, XBox One and PC next April, but Google would only promise that the game will appear on Stadia “within the same year.” While Cyberpunk 2077 is a nice get, it’s not an immediate one, and Stadia will have more problems than just securing the hot new titles timely. Stadia is a brand-new type of product consumers are

June 6, 2019

Google Stadia: It’s A Thing

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When Google announced they were leapfrogging E3 to reveal their Stadia game “console” on June 6, we figured “they must have news so big that it puts everything else to shame!” Given the size of the company and the resources at its fingertips, we were expecting a megaton bomb like “we bought Activision!” or “WE’RE coming out with Half Life 3!” But maybe we were just projecting Microsoft’s behavior onto Google’s. The former likes to throw its weight and cash around to stay competitive, gobbling up studios and bragging obnoxiously. The latter doesn’t have a tendency to spend its problems away; rather, it just quietly gives up and moves on to something else. Google Stadia’s launch will be a quiet and cautious affair, not a loud one. Stadia will launch this November in two tiers: Google Stadia Base, which carries no subscription fee (you must buy the games though) and Google Stadia Pro, which costs $9.99 per month and has 4K support plus free games and discounts on others. Base

March 19, 2019

The Popgeeks Take On Google Stadia

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If you’ve been on any website at all today, including Sesamestreet.com, then you’ve already read the news: Google unveiled Stadia, their ambitious plans to get into the video game business, this morning. Some people speculated it was going to be a console, which means they barely know Google at all — it was obviously going to be the next phase in the “cloud computing” business, something that would play to their wireless strengths and require you to use as many of their products as possible. Not a console, but a service, and one that could run from any machine. Even from the browser you’re using to read these words. The plan has many visible flaws. Massive sections of the country, and much of the developed world, do not have the speeds required to get this much data per second — and the monopolistic state of broadband internet at the moment will charge them through the nose if they do. A game is not a movie. You can get away with