If you haven’t heard of Google Stadia is shutting down, closed next weekBut before the never-fully-successful game-streaming service dies, it offered a nice (and free) little gift that you can only play for a few days before everything goes offline.
Launched in 2019, Google Stadia was Google’s big and expensive investment in the world of video games. Utilizing the cloud, a series of servers and offsite computers, Stadia’s big promise was instant gaming on the go. No more updates or expensive consoles. And although it worked sometimesthe high cost of the game, the lack of features, the small library, and the cost of the internet doomed the service. Some superfans logged thousands of hours into itbut for most people, it wasn’t what they wanted or needed from a video game platform.
in September of last year Google announces the end of StadiaIn five days, on January 18th, the video game streaming service will shut down. With the end nearing, it seemed unlikely that Stadia would receive a new game release. Still, Google published one last gameBut don’t expect a massive open-world RPG or remake.Instead, the last Stadia game is Worm gamean in-house developed title used to test Stadia long before it became a public service.
This Snake-like test game has pretty rudimentary graphics and ugly menus that you probably weren’t meant to see or play. But in the last few days of Stadia, it looks like the developer working on the project was able to offer the community his one final treat.Even better, anyone can play Worm game It’s free. (this is, Stadia store is no longer working.)
The game’s store page has a great and inspiring description of the game and what it’s used for.
Play games that came to Stadia before Stadia came to the world. “Worm Game” is a modest title that we’ve used to test Stadia’s many features from well before general availability in 2019 until 2022. It won’t win Game of the Year, but the Stadia team put in a lot of time to play. , and wanted to share it with you. Thanks for playing.
teeth Worm game What is incredibly important or surprising? not really. It’s really cool to get a behind-the-scenes peek, though.thanks for the video Worm gamethis little piece of test software will be saved so people can look back on it years from now.
In other cool End Of Stadia news, Google says starting next week players will be Unlocks the Stadia controller’s Bluetooth functionality.
This is a great way to make controllers with one of my favorite modern directional pads more useful and easily connect to more devices. It’s hard to believe that the developers who’ve been working on Stadia for years planned for the controller to be the only thing left for Stadia in 2023, but here we are.
