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This Week on Stadia: Big releases. Big deals. Big week.

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We’re well into August and things are heating up with a virtual cornucopia of new games: MADDEN NFL 22, HUMANKIND, a new expansion for Marvel’s Avengers and a First on Stadia launch of Young Souls. Plus we’ve got some great deals for you to check out. And yes, we did just say “cornucopia.”

For those of you who are into rewriting the entire narrative of human civilization, HUMANKIND is available today for $49.99 USD on the Stadia store. HUMANKIND is a new turn-based historical strategy game from SEGA and Amplitude Studios. You might remember playing the free demo of HUMANKIND within our Good Stuff showcase last year. Now the official launch allows you to create your own civilization by combining 60 historical cultures from the Ancient to the Modern Eras.

This release is even more exciting because HUMANKIND is launching with an exciting use of State Share as well as the new direct touch input method on mobile. We shared more details on these integrations within yesterday’s blog post.

Next, we have a First on Stadia release with Young Souls, which is available now. Young Souls’ gorgeous animation and incredible art direction draw you in, but it’s the deep narrative RPG and clever crossover mechanics that will keep you happily hypnotized for hours. Prepare to get lost in the intense combat, unforgettable characters, and an exciting adventure about life, family, and saving the world. Not necessarily in that order. Purchase it on the Stadia store today for $24.99 USD.

A new expansion to Marvel’s Avengers drops players in a whole new world with Black Panther — War for Wakanda. Black Panther will be the third Super Hero to be added to the epic, third-person action-adventure game. Be prepared for other new in-game content, including two villains, a Wakandan environment to explore, and challenging solo and multiplayer Drop Zone and Threat Sector missions. Wakanda forever!

Prepare to huddle up and hit the field with Madden NFL 22 on August 20. There’s a ton of very exciting updates and features in this installment. Franchise, a longtime fan-favorite mode, now gives you more control over every aspect of your team. You can even hire and manage your coaching staff. There’s a new Road to the Draft storyline in Face of the Franchise, as well as a new Classes feature that helps you customize your avatar’s playing style. The ever-popular Ultimate Team is back, with a brilliant new way to make halftime adjustments to Superstar X-Factors to counter your opponent’s strategies during MUT matchups. And much, much more.

Play The Elder Scrolls Online for a limited time free with Pro

If you’re a Stadia Pro member, you can play The Elder Scrolls Online from Tuesday, August 17 at 7 AM PT until Monday, August 30 at 7 AM PT with Stadia Free Play Days. The Elder Scrolls Online merges the unmatched exploration of rich worlds that the franchise is known for with the scale and social aspects of an online role-playing game. So play The Elder Scrolls Online any way you want. It never gets old. To continue playing after August 30, you will need to purchase the game in the Stadia Store (The Elder Scrolls Online: Standard Edition is currently on sale for $8.00 USD). The Elder Scrolls Online is not available as part of Stadia Pro subscription.

A new YouTube Premium member benefit: 3 months of Stadia Pro

Our friends over at YouTube are generous folks, and they’re offering 3 months of Stadia Pro to YouTube Premium subscribers. The offer’s available to new Stadia users and will automatically apply to eligible accounts when they sign up for Stadia. Check out this link for full offer details.

That’s all for this week. Stay cool and see you on Stadia.

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By: Stadia Team

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53 Comments
OriginalPenguin
Founder
Founder

Let's goooooooooo

TigerTitan
Founder
Founder

I thought ESO was already a pro game?

MrVacca
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Our high school is going to have a Madden esports team only using Stadia! So hyped! 

ViviFFIX
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Young Souls was a nice stealth drop. Especially given it's basically coming first to Stadia!

Ericstreameru
Founder
Founder

Ark, news about aaaark please :face_with_tongue: 

joshjohn77
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

LOVE seeing new Marvel's Avengers expansions :raising_hands::raising_hands:

Livenetwork
Founder
Founder

Not first 

bluebobz
Founder
Founder

@TigerTitan it was a pro game, but if you joined Stadia after it left the claimable pro catalogue then you don't have access to it.

Ofi
Founder
Founder

@TigerTitan ESO was only on pro for a month after release.

Edit: I was too slow! :grinning_face_with_sweat:

jdeslip
Founder
Founder

Big week indeed! Loving it!

Pengu
Founder
Founder

🦖🦕:person_fencing:

tylerjayplays
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Still no Ark, Mafia, Borderlands 2, or the backlog of Ubisoft games that were announced. Can we get a comment on where Stadia is with these games?

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Why reward the people who have been loyal and kept their subscription through all the nonsense Stadia have thrown at us, no, a far better idea is to reward the people who never joined, or those who left, with 3 months free if they have a YouTube account.

Those who have a current subscription, well, they get nothing!

 

A great lesson in how not to run a company. 

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Ericstreameru

 

Baldur's Gate pic, double bonus points for taste. 

JungleBugg
Founder
Founder

Yo I have been waiting for Young Souls since they announced it. Basically waited a year and a half.... I'm HYPE!!!! The person I was gonna co-op with has stopped using stadia like that so hit me up. :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:🥳

HashTagMediaGuy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Please get Injustice

Robin77
Founder
Founder

The next-gen is coming !! :flexed_biceps::video_game:

NinjaGuyX
Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

Young Souls looks so much fun! What do you think wallet? :money_with_wings:

SVShooter
Founder
Founder

I’m glad you are making the Youtube Premium offer. But I have been a YouTube TV subscriber for 3 years now, since it was first offered.   Is there ever going to be any love shown to the people paying $70 a month for one of the most expensive Google services offered?

Z3M0G
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Tested Direct Touch with Humankind and it's everything I could have hoped for.  It should work perfectly for any game developer who wishes to make Mobile-Style controls such as movement stick and action buttons to play games rather than the default Stadia Touch Controller.  So a Stadia game could play as naturally as any mobile game on the market!!

Squeak_Easy
Founder
Founder

Surprised, confused and a little unhappy that there's still no YT Premium and Stadia combination deal...

Bigstah
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Wird es denn auch eine deutsche Übersetzung für Humankind geben?habe es gekauft und war enttäuscht das es nur Englisch ist!

thisisluxuri
Founder
Founder

Okayyyyyyy! I’m digging the news this week. Been waiting for Young Souls. :winking_face: Thanks Google Stadia. Gets better every month so far.

However, I’m gonna wait til Sept to see if YS is gonna be in the pro sub. It’s happened too many times to me. I will not be damned again lol. 

SQUiDzzz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Big week here!! Keep on winning @StadiaTeam !!! #zzz

IrgendeinMehdi
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

can we get GTA 5 now?

 

dufte
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Bigstah Ist in Deutsch. Musst du in den Settings umstellen. Einmal dann Spiel beenden und danach nochmal starten:

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Descenter
Founder
Founder

Wow, i almost sign up for YouTube premium... But I'm a Stadia founder so I guess I get nothing for my support.

BeauBo
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I just cancelled my pro last month. I haven't had Stadio Pro for that time. I have YouTube PRemium for families. 

Why can't I see or get the free 3 months? I am on the sub page now, and it's telling me it will be the normal cost. 

gibran
Founder
Founder

cool news, although I'm a little disappointed that the 3 free months of PRO are only for new members.

lallo1138
Founder
Founder

I've started to play Humankind on my Android tablet and now I won't be able to play it anywhere else. Bring direct touch to Baldur's Gate 3, please!

Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

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HashTagMediaGuy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Note to Google; don’t let the whole community know when you’re offering free perks to new users; note to longtime Stadians: stop punishing Google for asking you to pay your monthly pro “dues”.  

TheBriman
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Lame.....

TheBriman
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

The only new game pros have gotten lately is f***ing paw patrol. Thanks stadia, still more expensive for membership than other gaming services. Twice the cost of playstation plus with LESS THAN HALF the benefits. Get it together google.

Mickyjohn1990
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

There's me thinking I could get the 3 months seem am YouTube premium and cancelled my stadia last month... Guess not.. just new customer not the ones who's been subbed from very beginning and lost faith 

Potato420MLG
Stadia Player
Stadia Player
SlyJoker
Founder
Founder

Where are the deals? 

 

MJParks
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Ooof tough crowd around here, poor Google just trying to give us fanatics some weekly scoop and managed to stir up the bees nest

killaplatapus
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I would join YouTube premium if you opened up the 3 months of stadia to everyone not just new players

Krychu10
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Yup, couple hours when my pre-order Madden 22 get out :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: But I'm playing at Friday morning and I do first test this game  when I'm last playing Madden 02 xD 

JimmyD
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Humankind got me to actually throw some money Stadia's way. Still nothing compelling enough in the Pro library though, so skipping that for now.

Cordarone
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Meh.. Young souls looking like a mobile game from Google play.. So, where is ARK, Mafia, Super Animal Royale and all the other games that's been promised EONS ago?!

Btw, thanks for rewarding current subscribers and founders with perks, like the three months of free stadia pro with YouTube premium ONLY for NEW subscribers while founders and those of us who've kept our subscriptions get nothing. Thanks a lot.

MrVacca
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Looks like I'll have to try out Humankind!

Tnice
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Add me pls tretonice443#4862

Wenugo
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

How about getting the new Quake remaster for QuakeCon?

Quake has looong existed on Linux, no?

Horoscopeking4
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Put Skyrim on 11 11 21 on stadia And everywhere game will sell more. Seriously not joking.

FUCMENOW123
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Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

OMG...my virgin eyes.

Well, just as you have included YouTube shorts, which is basically suggestive sexual content, you can add some kind of function in the Stadia application such as Tinder or something similar, you know business is business, also I leave you a motto ... vaccinated we are more attractive, join Stadia, get vaccinated and find love.

give hamburgers, give french fries ... yummiiiiii ... you are telling me that if I join Stadia they give me these delicious fries, YUMIIIIII incredible, wonderful, what is this feeling of well-being that I feel... IS STADIA!!!! oOOOWOMMMMMIIIIAAAAUUUUUWUUU

Peace and love...Stadians.

Sultan099
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Wow

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Rudiggz
Founder
Founder

Great Job @StadiaTeam on bringing lost souls as a timed exclusive !