{"id":95643,"date":"2019-08-31T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/googles-stadia-game-service-is-officially-coming-november-everything-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2019-08-31T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:23:02","slug":"googles-stadia-game-service-is-officially-coming-november-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/googles-stadia-game-service-is-officially-coming-november-everything-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Stadia game service is officially coming November: Everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-stadia-game-service-is-officially-coming-november-everything-you-need-to-know2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Google has revealed the key details that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/20\/18273977\/google-stadia-cloud-game-streaming-service-report\">conspicuously missing<\/a> from its March announcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/19\/18271702\/google-stadia-cloud-gaming-service-announcement-gdc-2019\">the new Stadia game streaming service<\/a>. Namely, what the heck we\u2019re going to be able to play, how much we\u2019ll pay, and when we can get started with the exciting new service \u2014 which beams high-end console and PC games to any Chrome web browser, Chromecast Ultra TV dongle or Pixel 3 smartphone from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/19\/18272809\/google-stadia-specs-amd-teraflops-cloud-gaming\">beefy new Google servers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short version: <strong>Google Stadia will launch in November<\/strong>, in 14 different territories including the US, UK and Canada, with at least 31 games from 21 different publishers, for an initial \u201cFounder\u2019s Edition\u201d price of $130 for a hardware starter kit with three months of premium service, and $10 a month afterwards. There\u2019s a separate free tier coming in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-orders for the \u201cFounder\u2019s Edition\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/product\/stadia_founders_edition?utm_source=gblog&utm_medium=google_oo&utm_campaign=GS102725\">are now open<\/a>, and I\u2019ll explain what it is in a tad, but there\u2019s something important you should know first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Google has revealed the key details that were conspicuously missing from its March announcement of the new Stadia game streaming service. Namely, what the heck we\u2019re going to be able to play, how much we\u2019ll pay, and when we can get started with the exciting new service \u2014 which beams high-end console and PC [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}