Stadia’s pivot to a Google Cloud product is official

Stadia’s pivot to a Google Cloud product is official

2 years ago
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/stadias-pivot-to-a-google-cloud-product-is-official/

Stadia's rumored pivot to a Google Cloud service is real! At the "Google for Games Developer Summit" Tuesday, Google announced that the technology underpinning Stadia will be available for sale as a Google Cloud service called "Immersive Stream for Games." That's nowhere near as catchy as the "Google Stream" name that was rumored, but Google Cloud services aren't consumer-facing anyway.

The company confirmed AT&T was one of the first to trial Immersive Stream for Games last year, when it launched Batman: Arkham Knight as a free streaming game for AT&T mobile subscribers (AT&T owns Batman via DC Comics). Despite giving the game out to mobile subscribers, you aren't actually supposed to play Batman over your cellular connection just yet—it only works on PCs, not smartphones.