Heads up, Stadia house owners: Google’s cloud gaming program is shutting down tomorrow, January 18. The service <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/11/10/google-has-begun-issuing-stadia-refunds" goal="_blank" rel="noopener">started issuing refunds</a> for all {hardware} final November, however when you haven’t obtained one but, data on the way to receive one ought to have been emailed to the Google account used to make the acquisition. Nevertheless, previous Stadia Professional subscriptions is not going to obtain refunds.
There’s a silver lining for these of you with Stadia controllers and nothing to make use of them for. The official Stadia Twitter account has introduced that it’s going to launch a self-serve software to allow Bluetooth connections. Whereas they haven’t introduced a particular date that this may happen, it ought to occur someday this week.
We’ve additionally bought Bluetooth information: subsequent week we’ll be releasing a self-serve software to allow Bluetooth connections in your Stadia Controller.
We’ll share particulars right here on launch. pic.twitter.com/6vYomngfmA
— Stadia ☁️? (@GoogleStadia) January 13, 2023
Should you missed the information concerning the shutdown, final September, Stadia’s VP and Basic Supervisor stated in a weblog put up that “whereas Stadia’s strategy to streaming video games for shoppers was constructed on a powerful know-how basis, it hasn’t gained the traction with customers that we anticipated so we’ve made the troublesome determination to start winding down our Stadia streaming service.”
Stadia’s struggles had been no secret. Its first-party studios had been shut down simply over a yr in, with the service being “deprioritized” a yr later. Whereas it was an attention-grabbing experiment, some experiments are simply destined to fail. Relaxation in peace, Stadia.
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