What to expect at Google I/O 2019: Pixel 3a, Android Q, and more
Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, is nearly upon us. In a few days’ time, a keynote address headlined by CEO Sundar Pichai will...
Will Google’s Stadia console kill mobile games?
Last month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Stadia, a streaming service that removes consoles and GPUs...
AMD beats out Nvidia and Intel for PlayStation 5 processor — and what that means for gamers
Advanced Micro Devices will provide the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) that will become the heart of the Sony’s next...
Google Stadia has a lot of ‘last mile’ challenges
Google Stadia’s technology is probably going to work. I haven’t used it, but for whatever it’s worth, I thought that OnLive was good enough....
Why CCP Games crammed 14,274 spaceships into an Eve Online battle
It’s been seven months since Black Desert Online creator Pearl Abyss of South Korea acquired EVE Online maker CCP Games for $425 million. But...
Google Stadia has promise — if it can resolve these 3 questions
At the Game Developers Conference 2019 this week, Google stole the show by announcing Stadia, its on-demand streaming service for video games. Set to...
ProBeat: Google’s Stadia is all about the cloud and AI
Last Tuesday, Google announced that Gboard now uses an on-device neural network for speech recognition. This Tuesday, Google announced the Stadia cloud gaming platform....
The DeanBeat: Why Phil Harrison joined Google to launch the Stadia cloud gaming platform
Google is finally taking the game business seriously. Not satisfied with its role as owner of Android and the operator of the Google Play...
Google positions YouTube as Stadia’s killer app
Google has a gaming platform now. It’s called Stadia, and it streams blockbusters like Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey from the cloud to almost any device....
Google’s Stadia uses Style Transfer ML to manipulate video game environments
At a press conference today during the 2019 Game Developers Conference, Google took the wraps off of Stadia, its cloud-powered gaming service, and demoed...