Tag: Stadia

Freebie Fridays: It’s The End Of Civilization VI As We Know It


Actually it’s probably doing just fine.

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Freebie Fridays: None Of These Are PS5 Games Edition


Unsurprisingly.

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Freebie Fridays: Pending Scheduled Delivery Edition


Free games for everyone, especially you.

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Stadia Watch: Wireless PC Controller Support Coming


For those of you who really want it.

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Stadia Status: Stadia Connect Drops New Games


Also PUBG is now available for pro members.

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Stadia: Borderlands 3 Launch Is A New Embarrassment For The Platform


Stadia’s holiday launch is an embarrassment of riches. Well it’s an embarrassment anyway. At least you’d be laughing if you’re not among the astroturf social media accounts who coincidentally just registered and only post to lie about Stadia and its competition.

Borderlands 3 is out on Stadia today, and nothing says embarrassing quite like your console-free game being woefully out of date. One positive of the Stadia experience is that you don’t have to download or update your games, and Gearbox has sweetened the deal even more by simply not updating the game. As posted on the official website, the Stadia edition of Borderlands 3 has launched with the most recent version of Borderlands 3 up to October 24. Gearbox hopes to achieve version parity around early 2020.

“We aim to achieve feature parity for all versions of Borderlands 3 early in 2020, but for the moment the version of the game that you play on Stadia has benefitted from the updates and fixes that were released through October 24. Noteworthy features coming soon to the Stadia version of Borderlands 3 include endgame content like the Takedown at the Maliwan Blacksite and Mayhem 4 difficulty, dedicated loot pools for bosses, and additional bank space.”

Borderlands 3’s first expansion content titled Moxxi’s Heist For the Handsome Jackpot launches on December 19, whereas Stadia players will need to wait until early 2020.

December’s Free Game Roundup (Powered by Red Bull)


Today’s post isn’t sponsored by Red Bull, but I’ve drank more than a healthy amount over the last week so theoretically this post is powered by it.

Xbox Live:

  1. Castlevania: Lord of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD (Dec 16 – 31)
  2. The Final Station (Nov 16 – Dec 15)
  3. Insane Robots (Dec 1 – 31)
  4. Toy Story 3 (Dec 1 – 15)
  5. Jurassic World Evolution (Dec 16 – Jan 15)

Games Pass:

  1. The Witcher III – Console
  2. Darksiders III – Console & PC
  3. Halo Reach – Console & PC
  4. My Friend Pedro – Console & PC
  5. Life is Strange 2 – Console
  6. The Red Strings Club – PC

Playstation Plus:

  1. Titanfall 2
  2. Monster Energy Supercross

Stadia:

  1. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
  2. Farming Simulator 19

Stadia Offering Refunds For Early Buyers Of Freebies


This week Google announced that December will bring with it two new Stadia games: Farming Simulator 19 and Tomb Raider. The news is great if you’re one of those people who bought a Stadia and wanted some more free games. If you’re one of the people who bought those games only to see them be handed out for free barely two weeks after the device launched, you’re probably not too happy.

While Tomb Raider purchasers would normally just be out $10, Farming Simulator 19 costs $40. That’s a steep price for two weeks early access to a game that technically released over a year ago. Thankfully even Google is smart enough to know when to fold them, and announced that both games will be refunded to those who ask for it, even if it is outside of the normal policy.

“We know that some users have recently purchased these two games for their collection. Because of the proximity between the launch of the platform, and the announcement of these titles in Stadia Pro, we’re happy to assist you if you’d like to request a refund if you have purchased either or both of these titles, even if it’s outside of our normal policy.”

You’ll need to manually request a refund, however.

Source: Stadia

Both Destiny Titles Are Offline As Bungie Hurries To Figure Out Why


Destiny 1 and 2 have been down pretty much all day today, and Bungie is trying to get to the source of why. Servers for both titles went down at about 7:30 eastern this morning. Bungie has not publicly stated what the source of the downtime is, just that they are investigating the issues preventing people from logging in.

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Is this a conspiracy by the Undying Mind to prevent players from racking up kills during the final offensive event? Your guess is as good as mine.