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Stadia Shuts Game Developers Studio
No more in-house exclusives
IN AN UNEXPECTED move Google has closed its Stadia games developers studio, the internal team for exclusive Stadia games. From now on games will all be thirdparty titles. The move was particularly unexpected by the studio staff. Just five days before the closure an email from Stadia’s vice president, Phil Harrison, had praised the developers on the “great progress” they had made. Google’s announcement claims that Stadia’s technology works at scale, but that creating top games from scratch is a “significant investment.”