Erin Hoffman-John of Google shows split-screen games.
Erin Hoffman-John of Google shows split-screen games.
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Google’s Stream Connect tech for Stadia will bring back split-screen games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform is so powerful that it can stream multiple interactive streams for players who are playing high-quality 4K video games like the upcoming Doom Eternal. And one of the things this enables is split-screen gaming.

Long a staple of early video games, split-screen games have almost disappeared because of the challenge of streaming multiple scenes at the same time to a single TV and a single internet connection.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.