
Some games are free and some must be purchased separately. The service offers a free tier and Stadia Pro subscriptions that cost $10 a month. It’s not clear how Stadia itself is faring. Google didn’t disclose the total number of job cuts, but said most of the staff in the game-development division will be moved to other roles. Jade Raymond, who had headed up Stadia Games and Entertainment, is leaving the company.

It lets players jump across devices including phones, PCs and laptops.īut in a Monday blog post, Google said it will no longer invest in creating its own games for the service beyond any “near-term” planned titles.

Google launched Stadia in November 2019 as a new type of video-game platform that operates without a console and that stores game-playing sessions in the cloud. Google is closing the internal studio tasked with developing games for its Stadia cloud-gaming service, a move that raises questions about the future of the Stadia service itself.
