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SAN FRANCISCO—At the Game Developers Conference, Google announced its biggest play yet in the gaming space: a streaming game service named Google Stadia, designed to run on everything from PCs and Android phones to Google’s own Chromecast devices.
Google Stadia will run a selection of existing PC games on Google’s centralized servers, taking in controller inputs and sending back video and audio using Google’s network of low latency data centers. The company revealed a new Google-produced controller, then described the service as something “focused on gamers, inspired by developers, and amplified by YouTube creators.”
Google’s announcement follows weeks of teases and hints of a major announcement centered on some sort of streaming gaming solution. It also follows the public beta test of Google’s Project Stream, which let players try Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in a browser window. Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned that this test hinted to “the worst-kept secret in the industry” and reached “19 regions, 58 zones, and 200 countries.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Google jumps into gaming with Google Stadia streaming service