Just after three years of initial launch, Google has decided to shut down Stadia, it’s cloud gaming platform. Now, there’s one thing that demands our attention -The promise of better ‘Games As A Service’ and is it enough of a reason to stray away from the very notion that makes gaming fun?

Google is shutting down its video game streaming service, Stadia, on January 18th, 2023, the company announced today. All purchases will be refunded and the technology will still be used for YouTube and other parts of its business, but the consumer-facing app and storefront will be shuttered for good less than five years after it launched, joining the graveyard of other projects Google has abandoned.

Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service will soon be no more, as the company announced that it’s shutting down the service early next year. Google touted ambitious plans when Stadia launched, but it never posed any real threat to established players like Sony and Microsoft. And because of Google’s general lack of commitment to anything but its biggest cash cow — digital advertising — Stadia never really stood a chance.

Blizzard’s security layer is meant to curb cheaters and toxic players

The inevitable death of Google's game-streaming service happens early next year.

Almost a year after it came to every other platform, Skyrim: Anniversary Edition surprise-launched on the Nintendo Switch today. The newest version of the beloved 2011 open-world RPG includes a bunch of DLC, mod content, and fishing. It’s also $70 on Nintendo’s handheld hybrid. Gotham Knights and Callisto Protocol aren’t coming to Switch, but apparently the price point is, at least in this one odd instance.

It looks like we’re already starting to get a flow of reports in about Apple’s next generation of AR/VR headset, you know – the device that isn’t announced yet. Yeah. This report is about that. In a report from The Elec, we’ve learned that Apple is looking to make the future generation of AR/VR headset even more immersive than the one that still isn’t here yet.

The pre-load as well as the review embargo date for the latest entry in the God of War series, God of War Ragnarok, has been revealed. According to the PlayStation Store, the pre-load for God of War Ragnarok is scheduled to go live on November 2, 2022, and the review embargo for the game is expected to end on the same day i.e. a week before its launch on November 9, 2022.

Avalanche Studios, the company best-known for the Just Cause series, is at work on an unannounced, triple-A open-world game. In a job listing for a platform programmer(opens in new tab) (dug up by VeryAli Gaming(opens in new tab)), Avalanche Says it's looking for someone "to develop and maintain platform-specific features for our unannounced AAA project."

Microsoft has to keep feeding fans with new content, and the latest thing coming in the portfolio is Minecraft Legends.

Gigabyte’s Aorus RTX 4090 Master is the biggest GPU we’ve ever seen. We don’t yet know the full specs of this GeForce RTX 4090 model, but we do know we’re going to need a very large case to house this beast. This is a monster unit. It needs four slots all to itself on a motherboard. It comes with three 11 cm fans. It is 35.8 cm (14.1 inches) long and 16.2 cm (6.4 inches) wide, meaning we could literally stack several smaller RTX cards inside of it and still have some room to spare. Videocardz.com did the math and determined they could fit 10 Radeon RX 6400 cards inside.

A teardown of the new PS5 CFI-1200 series model has confirmed that the console now comes with a more efficient 6nm SoC.

Microsoft has registered a new Gears of War trademark related to video games. This could suggest they plan on a new game in the series. Gears of War title was changed to Gears beginning with the 5th entry in the series. It was named Gears 5 marking a name change for the series. However, based on the new trademark, Microsoft might go back to using Gears of War as the game name going forward.

AMD has just started lowering the list price of its Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. Spanning across the entire lineup, the price cuts are significant, and they are already beginning to come into effect.

Whether you’re strapping in for a Peloton ride or buying up virtual real estate, Mark Zuckerberg says you’ve joined the metaverse. On an August episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Meta CEO said the evolution of virtual reality will unfold similarly to computers and cell phones: Gamers are the first to explore new technology, followed by mainstream users who want to use it to socialize.

Nvidia has just confirmed what many of us were already suspecting — GPUs are expensive, and Nvidia plans to keep it that way. During a Q&A session with the media, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lifted the veil of suspense on RTX 40-Series pricing, and the insights are not what we’ve been hoping to hear.

First released in 2001, Nintendo's GameCube console was a rare miss for the venerable video game company. But it also paved the way for enormous successes in the years ahead.

Recently, Sony announced a new software update for the PlayStation 5 players that unlocks 1440 video output and more. Also, the company updated another PlayStation in its portfolio. On September 07, Sony officially released the PS4 v10.00 software update that brings some important changes.

“It’s taken a long time for us to learn from our mistakes," said Sarah Bond, Xbox corporate vice president of game creator experience and ecosystem.

A week ago, Carlsen lost to Hans Niemann, a young American who has admitted to cheating in online games in the past.