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This Week on Stadia: Spend your summer in the Cloud

StadiaTeam
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The weather’s getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and the games are filled with new content. Couldn’t ask for a better start to the summer! Here’s a taste of what you can expect from our team:

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Trying new games is only a click away

It's all part of nine new trials offering timed access to full games on Stadia, now available all without needing to create a Stadia account! Find all 26 active Click to Play Trials on Stadia.com/trials – and play the trials right now:

Squad up –- Rainbow Six Siege Year 7, Season 2 is live

The newest season in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Operation Vector Glare, is now available. This season introduces Sens, a new Belgian Operator, a new Team Deathmatch map, the first phase of the new Reputation System bringing Privacy Mode and reverse friendly fire sanctions, and more gameplay improvements.

Also coming with Operation Vector Glare is the Squad Up Reactivation Program, which lets players who have not played Siege in Year 7 earn amazing rewards, from unlocking Year 6 Operators to a new exotic weapon skin, by inviting and playing with friends who also have not played Siege in Year 7.

But that’s not all – from June 23 through 27, you can play Rainbow Six Siege without spending a dime!

Prepare for battle on Stadia.

Experience the world of Vikings in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Discovery Tour - Viking Age

Jump into Discovery Tour: Viking Age and get a unique interactive experience where you learn about the history, traditions and famous characters of the Viking era. Relive history through stories with 8 major quests and discover the Viking Age of 9th- to 11th-century Northern Europe. Interact with charismatic historical or fictional characters, including King Aelfred, shipbuilders, monks, and more!

Find it included within Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, claim with an active Ubisoft+ subscription or purchase now on the Stadia store for $19.99.

Additionally, from June 16 – June 20, you’ll be able to play Assassin’s Creed Origins for no additional cost!

Can’t get enough Assassin’s Creed? Jump into the action on Stadia.

Explore a cold and hostile Norse-inspired archipelago in ARK’s newest official community map

Traverse a frosty and fantastical multi-layered Nordic wonderland composed of four unique islands and three mystical realms. Fjordur contains over 140 square kilometers of new biomes, new challenges, and rewarding discoveries!

Travel the icy landscape now in ARK: Survival Evolved on Stadia.

Dead by Daylight’s Roots of Dread Chapter is now available

When the dusk turns full dark, it comes. Dead by Daylight’s Roots of Dread Chapter features a new Killer – The Dredge – and a new Survivor, Haddie Kaur. A new map, the disturbing Garden of Joy, will be available for all players.

Dive into the madness on Stadia, available now for $6.99 on the Stadia store.

Phoenix Point patch now live

Azathoth, the latest Phoenix Point content update, is now available! This new update introduces new balance changes to the game, alongside bug fixes and AI improvements.

Expect more rewards when encountering events, and fewer limitations around using mutog war beasts in battle. And best yet, take advantage of a free new Infiltrator skin by starting a new game with the code KAOTIC.

Hone your skills and see if you have what it takes on Stadia.

Get ready for summer with our annual Summer Sale!

Your favorite games are on sale, just in time to get the summer started! Save up to 85% on games like Cyberpunk 2077 (50% off), The Elder Scrolls Online (70% off), Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (45% off), Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (85% off) and more. And as always, there are bonus savings for Pro members, too.

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And there you have it! You know what to do, Stadians: keep it here for more Stadia news, and as always, be sure to follow us on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for all the latest updates.

See you on Stadia!

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52 Comments
Polidoro
Founder
Founder

those sales are HOT, just like summer. If Ubisoft promised me to get 60 fps FAR Cry 6 at this price is a non-brainer!

WireSpy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

No new games. Disappointing as usual. 

ravenanime
Founder
Founder

Pika pika more games 

jdeslip
Founder
Founder

Those sales are hot! And loving all the new content!

Chiram
Founder
Founder

Right on Team. Thanks for the update. Looking forward to Discovery Tour and DBD addon

ViviFFIX
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I've had my eye on Phoenix Point for a while now... Might be the right time to take the plunge.

MiksteR_RdY
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I love Stadia, we all do. 

But I'm not gonna ruin my summer with 30 fps sub-par 1080p wanna be 4k quality that Stadia 2.0 should've given us over a year ago.

Maybe my kids will somemday be able to witness 2.0. Doubt it though.

I wish I would've saved the couple of hundred bucks I put in Stadia Premium.

Warpanox
Founder
Founder

You forgot the Assassin's Creed Origins Free Weekend!

nana
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Oh yes. Tom Raider! And AC Odyssey)) 

SRBearcubJeff
Founder
Founder

Thanks!


This is awesome!  Keep up the great work!!


Remember folks - if you cannot say anything nice - do not say it - like your mother told you!

 

K3NSHI23
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

OMG!!! So much content thank you for bringing us More triple A games!!(Sarcasm) 

TheArkhamKnight
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Yawn

HelixPlaysGames
Founder
Founder

It's that hot this Summer we have so many Trials by fire! :fire::smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Eduardiyo
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hope to see soon an announcement about Hot Wheels and Five nights at Freddys, that's the thing I would to hear about, games that would make me see this month with shiny eyes

Pedder
Founder
Founder

26 games ready to.play without an account t man that's awesome. 

lordkensal
Founder
Founder

Them FREE TRIALS must be working ..... great to see!

ione
Founder
Founder

MMM summer sale. I might just treat myself today. Thank you.

MastaE
Founder
Founder

I am still holding out hoping stadia upgrades the hardware so we can get a current gen experience. Until then unfortunately I am not going to sub to pro.

AAA games and a current gen experience please. 

Rexsplode
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I've been meaning to get back into phoenix point now I have a decent excuse 

Mofuggly
Founder
Founder

I won't be surprised if the next TWoS is ya'll announcing stadia's shutdown.

HashTagMediaGuy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sick sales!   We can all get Kona for less than five bucks and be honorary/virtual Canadians!

MrMCG
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sales are good if you dont own a majority of the games, which I already do. Trials are good for people who aren't already in on Stadia. We need news like upgrades on tech for getting close to next-gen consoles or new AAA games being added. I love Stadia, but something big has to happen soon. The every day Stadia user needs a shot of great news. 

LoFiMonk
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Soooo many games on sale!! I love it. Thank you. Cyberpunk is the game I've been wanting. 

lvp1980
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Just bought 6 games...My collection now sits at 204 games!

MrVacca
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I’ll certainly will be playing in the cloud all summer long! I made sure to bring a ton of sunscreen :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

CloudGamingDad
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

So many trials... So little time.. Going to need to carve out sometime for these. 

lallo1138
Founder
Founder

11 new time-limited trials is pretty big, if you reach the goal to make available a free trial for each game on the platform that would be a great feature.

Dice_for_Death_
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Appreciate the update! And the sales! Hopeful to see news of any hardware upgrades or regional expansion. Excited for the future as ever!

 

Thanks, Team Stadia. Keep it up! #stadians

BloodShine
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

still have 100+ Games this year ? 

dont see any line about this since last Marsh

Krampus
Founder
Founder

Huge sale!  Love it! 

SailorNinjaStar
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

My summer is going to be filled with Mortal Kombat 11 this year!

WatermelonLove
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@StadiaTeam Thank you for the updates! You rock!

I'm sharing watermelon with the Stadia community. :watermelon:

Eat up the best food for the human body and stay cool and hydrated!

chucky348
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

i don't have a high end pc but my internet works ok and stadia has let me play games that i have never had the chance to play

these deals are crazy and im going to play either final fantasy 15 or red dead redemption 2 all summer long now

SqueezyDonutz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Great sale. Absolutely love that Stadia made demos a big thing again. I do wish they were re-playable though. :thumbs_up::thumbs_up:

srgtun
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

There are sales on games I wanted and haven't seen before cheaper... gonna buy. Still no new relevant games coming for months...

MisterMarcoo
Founder
Founder

Sales are ok, but **bleep** not one new game announced. And we already on such a drought. How are you ever getting 100 new games this year when we are not even at 50% by now.

KennyGJr
Founder
Founder

Sales are always good.  I think I might pick up Fifa 22. :grinning_face_with_sweat::smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

HennyBro
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I just bought Cyberpunk 2077 and Sekiro Shadows Die Twice! I just HAD to get them for the price they were offered for!

Commotus
Founder
Founder

Folders?  All I'm waiting on to come back

RagingJacob
Founder
Founder

Not gonna lie fam, the lack of Stadia reveals during the Summer of Games and so forth after such a long absence of Good Stuff or Stadia Connects has put me in a state of dismay. Where the best we have to look forward too are updates and patches in our bi-weekly blog.

Stadia can't keep this silence up without making the players feel left out or worse yet without making them put away their Stadia Controllers for good... 

Where are the shiney new games people can get hyped for?

Where is the love? :broken_heart:

 

Not to take away from the great sales, but here's the thing, I already own whatever is on sale either through a prior purchase or Stadia Pro. Even if I wanted to, I can't buy any of the games that are on sale that I acquired through claiming them when they were part of Stadia Pro. 

I can't be alone in this dichotomy.

MisterMarcoo
Founder
Founder

@RagingJacob Yea I agree with you on that. Stadia started ok-ish in terms of content and commitment to bring it to the people, but now that the player base is too small (I guess) they just don't care enough anymore.

I really hope they learned from their mistakes with the launch, because THAT was the moment it already failed giving the "haters" and news outlets so many stuff to downplay Stadia.. I don't know if anyone still remembers but:

- Pre-launch games: state you get x amount of games during launch and downgrade that number even before launch. News publishers loved it, commenters on those site already stated Stadia was dead before it even launched.

- Pre launch Pro confusion: first state you don't offer free games in Pro, just the 4K stuff and then all of sudden even before launch start saying you might do 1 per month, but not even every month. What is it? All this unclear stuff doesn't bring any confidence. Funny thing is we now always get like 4+ games per month, but before launch this was not advertised and a simple excuse for people to not pay. They should have know this question was coming looking at the other subscriptions by competitors. If they would have said you would have 4 to 5 games each month with the subscription, BUT maybe not from the very start that would have been fair and better imo.

- Pre launch advertisements: 4k @60fps lol Stadia almost never gets that and afterwards stating it was always advertised as "Up to". Yeah in a very tiny font... To top it of: you pay to play in 4k, but even their parade game Destiny 2 wasn't in native 40 60fps. Again, Stadia became the laughing stock for the gaming community. Play anywhere was a joke as well, more on that later.

- Nov 19 Stadia launched and Founders / PE-buyers didn't have their controllers yet. Without controller you couldn't register because you needed a code that came with it. Solution: Started shipping in September/October with a simple message in the box: "Use this code on launch day to start!" Everyone would have had their controllers and people could start testing. Instead, people need to wait for months sometimes and news publishers already started to rant. Yes maybe they didn't want to get too many people playing at once because that could overload the servers, but then just don't take so many pre-orders. Instead people were furious they bought it in jun 19 and received the controller in March 20 (for some, I had mine 2 days after launch lol).

- It was Chrome Browser/CCU only, although it was already advertised as "play anywhere". This is clearly a technical failure back then and they should have postponed until that was fixed because it took the "cloud" out of cloud gaming. Play anywhere was bad advertisement. It is already fixed quite well, but now its too late.

You could only play with controller. So even when you were on PC, mouse and keyboard was not supported. 

These are just a few simple things which were completely wrong when they launched this product and it is clear this was extremely rushed, just to be the first "non-beta" platform out there, but in the end, the launch was so terrible that the gaming community didn't take it serious and like every news outlet that even mentioned stadia would be negative about it, simply because Google made it so easy to hate on it. 

And then they finally had a very big GREAT moment: Cyberpunk launch. Everyone and their mother was positive about Stadia. The game ran smooth and it became quickly clear that Stadia was THE platform to play the most anticipated game of the year on (although the game was a mess). Where in hell were the advertisements? Why weren't their any Google Search Ads / Google AdSense Ads / YouTube Ads / Android Ads? There was completely NO advertisement on it. H*ll I would even advertise it as quickly as possible on television because it was real awesome news. Get a cooperation going with the developer (CDPR) and make something out of it. But no, instead they mentioned 2 months later that SG&E was closing down.
Again every news outlet started writing how bad that was. To the community Stadia was still new and what exactly was closing down? Confusion and negativity again. Google turned a positive sense about Stadia in a very bad one within approx. 60 days lol.

And after that nothing real good ever happened again to Stadia. No Connects, No events, no presence at any of the game shows, no interviews at big news publishers. Jade Raymond was a big name: she left. John Justice was a big name: he left. Phil Harrison has completely vanished. There is no Phil Spencer (Xbox), there is no Jim Ryan (Sony). Stadia seems to be without any form of leadership at least that how it looks like.

Now with immersion stream for games or whatever I doubt there will ever be a good boost for Stadia. ISG sounds like a great promotion, but Stadia replied on Twitter that a game published on ISG don't have to come to Stadia. You can publish your game for ISG OR Stadia, it's not an AND AND situation. So yea... Stadia... it seems to be over or at least Google is doing everything in their power to make it look like that. I feel so mislead and let down, i'll probably never buy something from Google (Stadia/Nest/Fitbit). it's just too clear Google doesn't know what to do with paid products. 

Rob_1
Founder
Founder

Find it included within Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, claim with an active Ubisoft+ subscription or purchase now on the Stadia store for $19.99.

The store price says $23.99.  

Love Stadia! Thanks to you all!!!

RagingJacob
Founder
Founder

@MisterMarcoo Talk about a trip down memory lane for Stadia !
I mean Kudo's to you for chronicling its history so well in an unbias way and hitting every pain point the service has endured.

And still I truly believe Stadia can come back from being labeled as gaming's outcast by turning the tide with some simple participation to the celebration of gaming. Look at the week that we as gamers experienced the past week.
Never once could Stadia participate by a simple logo being displayed in maybe a hand full of trailers.

There's only so much you can boast about with the tech that has been developed, the proof is in the pudding and the pudding is all new flavors of videogames!
Hence I fear that Google Stadia has taken its place among something like Google Play Movies & TV,
it does the job, is very serviceable, but it's nothing to get excited about when it comes to their communication, transparency, roadmap.
At first it felt like every month was a surprise array of games to look forward to, be it late comers like games from a couple of years back, some sweet indies,
or simply a point and click adventure I would never give a try on another platform. But now it's starting to look more and more this trend will only continue.

As more and more new game announcements happen that I'm excited for where Google Stadia doesn't even get mention as a key launch platform,
my heart breaks just a little more. I reckon the first crack in my love for Stadia showed up when Elden Ring didn't arrive on Stadia.

Makes you wonder where this ship is sailing doesn't it? If even there is a captain to speak of anymore.

SQUiDzzz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Very nice update! So excited for these salezzz! Keep on bringin the heat @StadiaTeam !! Appreciate all you guys do! I can't wait to dig in more with trials and tell me friendzzz and family about the trials to try! Thanks again and keep on workin hard out there! - SQUiDzzz #zzz

Altraixx
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

like the sales, still wondering where orgins Free weekend is though

The_Unrest_Cure
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Deathrun TV has been a very pleasant surprise; I would not have played it if it weren't for Stadia Pro.  

LightO
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

A list of games that need to be on Stadia.

Final Fantasy 7 remake

Resident Evil 2 remake

Resident Evil 3 remake

Resident Evil  4 remake

Street Fighter 6

Apex Legends 

An many more AAA games. New controllers would be nice. Upgrade the library of games on TV so it would be easier to selete the game you want. Stadia is the best platform of this generation think about it. It's hard for people to buy new consoles these days an Stadia can being the best of the best of any game consoles out there Stadia has the best graphics I have ever seen Stadia is better than PC because you can play any game on any device. Team of Stadia make mass improvements on your platform you have massive fans of your platform keep pushing forward and you will see a massive boost on your platform. This is a Great opportunity for you keep at it.

roel8811
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Ami stadia me párese increíble necesitamos stadia en México o que quiten la resticcion regional para poder jugar libremente sin tener que usar vpn saludos desde México 

Mailliam2680
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

The only thing saving stadia is price.  Stadia should be the Walmart of video games and sell them at rock bottom prices. 

Mailliam2680
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@RagingJacob funny enough I once thought stadia would be rebranded into Google play movies, tv, and games. One store has all your entertainment needs in one place. Stadia is in limbo right now. 

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