Google has announced that it is shutting down its game streaming service Google Stadia on January 18th, 2023.
For now players will be able to access their Google Stadia game libraries, but come mid-January they’ll lose access to those titles – though the Stadia controller should still work as a wired controller for non-Stdia PC games.
Thankfully, in the official blog post (opens in new tab) about the shutdown, Google’s Vice President and General Manager of Stadia has said that Google will be “refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store.”
Google says it expects to have the “majority” of refunds completed by mid-January, and it has released a page on its help center (opens in new tab) answering questions about how the refund process will work.
This is a breaking news story, as we learn more about this we will update this page with everything we know.
