Google Stadia is dead, but its controllers live on


Google's cloud gaming service Stadia is now officially history. But the controller can still be connected to other gaming devices by Bluetooth if you give it one final update. — Photo: Andrea Warnecke/dpa

BERLIN: Google's cloud gaming service Stadia, once hoped to usher in a new era of console-free gaming, has been turned off as of January 18, but the many gamers with Stadia controllers can still find a use for them.

Gamers had feared that their Stadia controllers, which are similar enough to Xbox and PlayStation counterparts in design, would be bricked after Google axed its cloud gaming service.

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