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![[Updated] Stadia’s Vice President John Justice has officially left Google to work for Facebook](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Stadia-apk-insights-feature-242-1.png)
Update – May 7, 2021: According to John’s LinkedIn profile, he is now officially Vice President at Facebook! Definitely a surprise to me when I saw this, so I wanted to update you all as well. According to The Information and reported by 9to5Google, Stadia’s “superhero” John Justice has officially left Google for unknown reasons. […]
![[Correction] May the 4th be with you – Grab Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order for free with Stadia Pro](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Star-Wars-Stadia-Feature.jpg)
Correction: you can claim this game beyond May 4, 2021. In honor of Star Wars Day, Stadia is making Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order free to grab and play with Stadia Pro! That’s a high-quality AAA title that’s loads of fun that’s being given away practically for free. I hadn’t expected this – instead, I […]
I’m going to come clean right off the bat, here: I had no idea Friday Night Funkin existed before this morning. As a routine thing around our office, I was checking in on Google Trends to see what the internet was interested in this fine 4th day of May, 2021. To my surprise, one of […]
It’s about time! Google Stadia is finally rolling out an official search bar that will help users find games and add-ons. It should be appearing at the top-right of the window for many of you right about now. Go ahead and refresh your ‘game console’ in order to begin making use of it. We previously […]
Stadia Pro now has over 25 games to claim immediately upon signing up since it’s adding three new titles for subscribers in the month of May. You can claim Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong number, and Floor Kids on May 1st, which is just a few days away! Let’s take a […]
The latest update to Google Stadia’s web application and Android app now lets you subscribe to Ubisoft+ directly from within without needing to leave your cozy gaming corner. This comes after the two companies decided to collaborate in December. At that time, Ubisoft+ began rolling out in beta, and those who were already subscribed to […]
The new Chromecast with Google TV launched all the way back on September 30 last year – that’s almost 7 months ago. To date, Google Stadia remains unavailable for every user’s television who decided to upgrade to the new dongle. For those passionate about Stadia, that has felt like quite a punishment for remaining on […]
The Chromebook Perks page was quietly updated recently to include several new Perks for new and existing Chromebook owners. Among them was a two-month free trial of the popular DocuSign service, and before that, an online digital audio workstation called Amped Studio. Now, the page was updated yet again with even more free goodies for […]
At launch, Google’s Play Pass subscription service already had a lot of value packed in. Even still, It’s continued to add in loads of games and apps for just about every type of person’s interests, and while it hasn’t really appealed to hardcore mobile gamers, which is totally a thing, it’s done enough to become […]
Because Google’s cloud gaming platform is most often played with a gamepad, and most often on a laptop, desktop, or television, it simply seemed like a convenience that it originally created a touch gamepad feature a while back. Now, with the potential of Stadia launching a full-on touchscreen gameplay feature, I couldn’t help but ask […]
Stadia Pro is offering, yet again, four free games to Stadia Pro subscribers for the month of April. Starting tomorrow, April 1, 2021, you can add them to your collection with a few clicks – no joke. Headlining the pack, you’ll be receiving Resident Evil 7 Biohazard – a game I vividly remember playing on […]
In a new APK Insights report, 9to5Google has found code buried in version 3.9 of the Stadia application for Android that points to several new features that may be coming to gamers very soon. To be clear, just because code exists in the application does not point to a definitive release for said features, but […]
