During 2022, Google plans to introduce several key changes to the Stadia gaming cloud service. We noted the main points of the report on Stadia, announced as part of the Google Games Summit.

Google intends to pay developers money depending on the number of gaming sessions in the paid cloud service Stadia Pro. However, not everyone in the industry has positively received this model. Some fear that it will force studios to create stretched games and artificially increase user engagement.The discussion arose against the background of the new Google Stadia strategy.

Google wants to attract more developers to Stadia. To do this, the company introduces a new commission system. Now the authors of the new games will pay Google only 15% of the first $3 million in revenue received on its cloud platform. However, there were some nuances.This became known at the Google for Games Developer summit.

At the beginning of the year, Google Stadia began to have big problems after the closure of internal development studios and the departure of Jade Raymond. Despite this, the company assures that the platform feels great and continues to develop. Among the arguments are regular replenishment of the library of games and cooperation with indie studios. However, Google still doesn’t say anything about the size of the service’s audience.About the current state of Stadia in…

The streaming service Stadia was an ambitious project of Google. It was predicted that he would be able to “radically change” the gaming industry and oust consoles from the market. Journalist Jason Schreier with reference to his own sources, he told why this did not happen.

In early February, Google decided to close the internal development studios of Stadia, but their employees did not know anything about the company’s intentions. Just a few days before, the management praised them for their progress and promised to share their plans for 2021.This was reported by Kotaku with reference to four sources familiar with the situation.

Another Google project was under attack. The corporation announced that it was discontinuing game development for Stadia and closing internal studios. The platform itself will continue to work for now, but without exclusives.

Google and Nvidia have announced that their cloud gaming services will appear on iOS in the form of web applications. At the same time, GeForce Now already works on Apple devices, and the company itself plans to release a special version of Fortnite adapted for control on smartphones.GeForce Now and Stadia decided to follow the path of Amazon’s Luna service, which appeared on iOS in the form of PWA, a progressive web application.

The connection between Google Stadia and YouTube has become even stronger. Now premium subscribers of the video hosting can get the Stadia Premiere Edition bundle for free — it includes a gamepad and a Chromecast Ultra streaming player. But the offer is temporary and does not work for all countries.

Streamers should deduct part of their revenue to the developers of the games they broadcast, according to Alex Hutchinson, creative director of Stadia Games and Entertainment. His statement provoked thousands of angry comments, and Google representatives hastily disavowed his statements.How did it all start?

Services for “playing in the cloud” violate the rules of the App Store, Apple reports. Neither Google Stadia nor Microsoft xCloud will be released on the Apple platform.

Ubisoft has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Parsec, which allows “playing in the cloud”. This could be the beginning of the French publisher’s competition with projects like Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now.

Google is increasing the number of developers for Stadia. The Internet giant has opened a new studio and appointed her head of the ex-head of the God of War team.

Only 6 games were added to Google Stadia in the first three months. There are 28 of them in the library. The Business Insider portal found out from a number of developers and publishers why they do not go to the site.

Cloud gaming is one of the central agendas of the past and, most likely, this year. After several years in beta (testing of the service began back in 2017) GeForce Now is officially released. Some publications immediately called it the main competitor, almost the killer of Google Stadia, as well as one of the most interesting offers in the niche.

At the release of Google Stadia, users and reviewers noted that the site needs to be improved. But over the past 40 days, she has not received a single update.

Google has announced the purchase of Typhoon Studios. The developer, whose first project will be released in January, will create exclusives for Stadia.

Google Stadia is clearly not the best platform for multiplayer games right now. MAU Destiny 2 has 9.9 thousand players on it.

Yesterday, November 19, Google launched the Stadia cloud platform. The reaction to it was not too enthusiastic. We have collected reviews of publications.