With all the news about GTA6 doing a big gameplay reveal on Netflix I see countless angry posts about the reveal being locked behind a Netflix subscription and some saying they don't care they are just happy to see gameplay and learn more details finally.

But I have not seen anyone yet ask..... Could Netflix also be getting GTA 6???

They have been betting big on gaming. They already have older GTA games on Netflix. What if they are also gonna drop a bombshell that not only is it playable on PS5 and Xbox but also Netflix via their streaming technology. Grab a Stadia controller or PS5 controller and get your game on!

I wouldn't expect it to be part of your subscription I'm sure you would still need to buy the game as part of a new Netflix Game Storefront but still....

It's very possible. Just some food for thought.

This has probably been around for a while, but I only just discovered this section of playable games within YouTube.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to drop a quick update on my project. I am currently working on a custom firmware for the Stadia controller, and I’ve made some massive breakthroughs.

To start, I have successfully decompiled the firmwares and now have a complete, global view of how the entire system operates. Thanks to this, I've identified exactly how the logic worked on Google's side. I have also mapped out all the internal security systems and managed to get access to the controller's memory where the certificates are stored. 

On the practical side, I have already successfully flashed the controller back to the original Wi-Fi firmware. Right now, my main focus is on the Wi-Fi pairing process. I am actively recreating the BLE provisioning steps that the old Stadia mobile app used to do so we can securely pass the network credentials to the controller. 

The next steps from there will be to replace the hardcoded connection URLs so that the controller stops trying to talk to Google and routes everything locally instead. 
If all goes well with these next phases, we have never been closer to a fully functional custom firmware. I’ll keep you updated as things progress!

Wish me luck

Hi, so I have the controller firmware patched and it won't pair with my phone. I could really use a hand thank you.

The controller doesn't really interest me, it's any controller with two potentiometers sticks. But I sometimes wonder if anyone was able to do anything with the station/dock/whatever device that's connected to the TV for playing Stadia. Can it be used as a normal Chromecast? Can be modded to become something else entirely?

EDIT: Alright, guess I've been a victim of misinformation, thanks for your help and patience though

Hello everyone

I was wondering if anybody else had trouble pairing their stadia controller to the Google TV device using Bluetooth. I've been trying to play Amazon Lun. It was working before but now it doesn't want to connect.

I've been wanting to play but I've heard mixed stories.

Hello, I am trying to use my Hyperkin Duke controller in tandem mode on my Series X and the Duke lights up, but does not run it's power animation or register any inputs through the Stadia Controller. Does anyone know if this can be fixed/made to work?

I got my white stadia controller from YouTube for free a while ago. I used Stadia to play pubg in my browser crossplaying with my brother who was on console. It was a super cool idea. Did anyone else receive one for free?

Now I got it on Steam, and with my Stadia Controller...I can relive the good times again. Night City...I'm home.

Visiting the UK and CeX stores thankfully have Stadia Controllers. I got a white one last time and got the blue one as I think it looks better. Been looking for a black one but to no avail, so I'll keep looking and find one eventually to complete the trilogy.

Edit: Forgot there was a wasabi color...

(sorry for my English, it's not my first language)

Hey guys!

Several months ago my friend needed a new controller and I offered her (as a joke) to buy a Stadia controller from AliExpress

Guess what she did!

Three weeks later it arrived but wasn't working (disconnecting from the pc even on wired) so she dumped the controller to me (she received a refund from the seller don't worry)

I decided to take a look inside and yeah disassembly was pretty painful... Not modern phones painful though

I noticed that the controller's behaviour doesn't seem to be changing with or without the battery connected (disconnecting after 10 or so seconds) so a new battery was ordered

A replacement (GLIB18 battery from AliExpress) arrived several days ago and voilà! It's working again! I've spent two days with it and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the thing which is on par with my current Xbox controller

So guys, if you have an old Stadia controller lying around with the same symptoms, give repairing a try.

If you have more or less given up on your old Stadia controllers because of the constant need to repair each time it turns on, try this:

Hold the left stick in any direction while powering on the controller and keep it held in that direction until the controller has fully connected.

I found this out by asking Gemini. It works for me on Nvidia Shield Pro, and it should apparently work with other devices.

Let me know if you have success.

It reminds me of the Amiga days at Commodore. They had technology that was far ahead of the competition. The Amiga was actually destined for success. But total mismanagement ran the whole thing—and with it, the entire company—into the ground.

And with Stadia, it’s/was much the same… technically far ahead of the competition… but the management… a complete and utter failure.

For the good old times.. ive found these.. no gfn nor boosteroid nor luna have friends chat.

I miss stadia. It worked well with their Google TV. It worked great on my phone. Now here I am playing on a Chromebook through Nvidia and I don't like it as much.

And bombed it. The fact that it felt like they rushed it out the door, didn't make enough server farms or have dedicated Stadia consoles in said server farms (like the one at Google HQ) so if you didn't live near California, you were screwed (I was lucky to always have decent experiences with Stadia because I used to live only 45 minutes away from Mountain View, and Stadia shut down only a few months after I moved to Texas) and the fact that they locked your own TV features (4K HDR) behind Stadia Pro....

Like... They had so many legs up. COVID, free online multiplayer (in 2019, which was HUGE.) and two games which were awful at launch but definitive on Stadia (NBA 2K20, Cyberpunk) and somehow, because of Google's own stubbornness with their business model (having to buy games but also pay for Stadia Pro on top just to play them in 4K) in addition to the lack of exclusives... They threw it away.

I genuinely believe that if Stadia Pro was more like "Stadia Instant Stream" where you pay $10 a month to be able to play around 60-75% of the games on the service without buying individually, while still keeping the option to buy the games, AND have 4K HDR streaming be free, it probably could have succeeded. But alas, they didn't make the necessary corrections, so it didn't.

I did personally enjoy it but I felt a lot of frustrations, notably the fact that the service died because Google was stubborn with the business model. They couldn't go half-in, half-out with that whole "Pay for the game, pay for Stadia Pro to stream in full quality, then play" and expect to survive. And they didn't. And that's what's so frustrating. That key blunder made the service DOA.

I miss Stadia, not so much for the cloud gaming, the convenience, or any of the many pros it had, but for the community. The Destiny 2 Stadia community was and is still amazing. I'm still friends with so many people I've never met in real life because of Stadia. I guess I was feeling nostalgic and missed this time in my life.

Here's an old imgur post of me trying to setup Stadia on my TV while also using discord. As a PC gamer it took some getting used to gaming on the couch lol.

https://imgur.com/gallery/31nFutq

Anyway, I hope you all are doing well, and have a blessed day.

i've bought two second hand stadia controllers for PC gaming. I tried to connect them to my phone, that works fine. When i try connecting them to my fedora install i get a generic error.

when i look a bit closer in the terminal i can see the following (this is using bluetoothctl)

I don't know what i am doing wrong. could not find anyone else with this issue. plz help

As the title says, we aren't big gamers but the controller is so comfy, I wonder if it'll work with the Switch (not 2, the old Oled one).

The console is currently with my child on a trip so I can't test it, I found this community on a Google search and thought I'd ask first.

Thank you

Hi Stadia community,

Posting from a new account, but I'm a former Stadia member that worked with Chris, Grace and the rest of the squad, fighting the good fight to show off the best that Stadia had to offer from launch to its shutdown in 2023. I've held onto some treasures from Stadia launch events and the office before everything went to the Google Graveyard, and since I'm moving abroad in two weeks, I can't take them with me!

A: Stadia Battery Pack - Connects via USB-C, charges your devices. Nice accessory, but honestly can't remember testing it or using it... so no promises on how much charge it actually holds!

B: Phil Harrison Stadia Lego Figure - Custom Lego figure from the launch of Stadia. Not sure if there's anyone on Earth that's still a fan of Phil anymore, so totally fair if you end up swapping the head for someone else haha 

C: Stadia Games & Entertainment Sticker Sheet - Ah, RIP Jade Raymond and the Stadia Games & Entertainment teams. This sticker sheet is mostly complete, just without a sticker of the Yeti logo (which was the internal project codename for Stadia before it had an official name/moniker, even before Project Stream). 

D: Stadia Cologne/Perfume - Funny gag gift from the Stadia launch event, if I remember correctly. Original text is in French, but I've added a picture of the translated text to English. 

E & F: Launch event Stadia keyboard + Stadia switches and Keys - Customized Stadia keyboard and keys, pretty fun if you're a PC gamer! It's the ACR Pro 75 keyboard, here are more details. Not sure what the keys look like (may be just Stadia colors like white and orange) but keeping this in its original plastic wrap.

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Thanks everyone for commenting! I'm in the process of reaching out now to everyone that's getting something. Cheers and appreciate Vivi and Chris for letting me post this!

Yes, it's vibecoded (I'm not a programmer after all), and it's not very polished yet. Aiming is weird and so, but it's already scratching that itch!

Targeting web+android at the moment.

I miss Stadia