Going beyond hardware and software refunds, Google even managed to open up its controller so that it could be used on other platforms. Now, as we head into the final stretch where users can unlock ...

Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform has been dead for the better part of 3 years now, but the sole piece of hardware, the Stadia Controller, has lived on. Now, as yet another arbitrary cutoff nears, ...

The Google Stadia Controller was pretty much the only piece of consumer hardware that came from the company’s cloud gaming project, but it would have been useless without the platform to go with it.

In context: Google designed Stadia as a competitor to existing online gaming services offered by Sony, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The search giant shut down its cloud-gaming brainchild after just a couple ...

Google's primary cloud gaming platform, Google Stadia, was axed in 2023. Many subscribers responded in a panic, not knowing what to do with their dead-end hardware. However, Stadia continues to live ...

Google has extended the ability to switch Google Stadia controllers from Stadia Wi-Fi mode to Bluetooth mode, allowing them to connect with other devices such as Windows 10, 11, and MacOS 13 PCs with ...

Stadia might be dead, but the controllers for Google's cloud-based gaming platform are still out there. With the service permanently offline, the proprietary Stadia Controller threatened to fill up ...

Game streaming service Google Stadia (why are you laughing?) shut down in 2022, leaving behind one mark on the physical realm: its not-too-shabby-looking gamepads. Originally intended for Wi-Fi-only ...

Stadia controllers could only connect through Wi-Fi when they launched. Google allowed Stadia controller owners to switch the controller to Bluetooth mode back in January 2023. Stadia controllers ...

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Remember how you always wished you could use your Stadia controller with your Nintendo Switch? Well, now you can! Kind of. Or you might be asking, what’s Stadia? No one would fault you for forgetting.