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Season 1 had good setup and terrible payout. Season 2 was awful the entire time. Never tried Season 3

Before Google closed down the division in 2021, Stadia Games and Entertainment turned down the opportunity to have an exclusive follow-up to Hideo Kojimas Death Stranding.

When Stadia was first announced in 2019, Google did so with aplomb, showcasing a grand vision for what cloud streaming technology could enable, with ideas like Stream Connect to instantly view your teammates gameplay. Rather than relying on third-party companies to see the merits of these ideas, Google formed Stadia Games & Entertainment headed up by industry veteran Jade Raymond to create experiences that could only be possible on Stadia.

A little over a year into Stadias existence, however, with the service reportedly missing user targets by hundreds of thousands, Google began winding down the Stadia Games and Entertainment division. Before that shutdown, Google was working with quite a few well known developers in the gaming industry to craft Stadia exclusive titles.

Some companies like Harmonix had been publicly confirmed to be working on Stadia titles while names like Yu Suzuki and Hideo Kojima were reported after the fact. These efforts were presumed to result in second-party titles published by Stadia Games & Entertainment, as opposed to the in-house games being developed by Shannon Studstills team and Googles Star Labs.

A source has told 9to5Google that the game Kojima was working on was meant to be a Stadia-exclusive follow-up to Death Stranding, a game which initially launched as a PlayStation exclusive in 2019. Where Death Stranding was an asynchronous multiplayer game where actions taken in your world can have an effect on other players, such as building signs to help others find their way the proposed game would be strictly a single-player experience.

In fact, our source says it was that single-player nature of the game that led Google to cancel Stadias collaboration with Kojima, with the company believing there was no longer a market for solo experiences. Reportedly, the game had gotten initial approval from Google and had begun the early stages of development. However, shortly after the first mockups were shown in mid 2020, Google scrapped the project entirely.
Previous reporting on Kojima Productions intended Stadia efforts claimed it would be an episodic horror game, and that Kojima himself was excited to work with the potential of the cloud. Ultimately, it was said to be Stadias General Manager, Phil Harrison, who made the final call to cancel the Death Stranding follow-up.

Since that cancelation, with its more recent PC re-releases, Death Stranding has grown to be a well-regarded game with a full sequel now said to be in the works. Beyond that, the enduring popularity of games like God of War, Marvels Spider-Man, and Control shows that single-player games continue to be a core market, especially for platform exclusives.

Even with the benefit of hindsight, its impossible to know whether an exclusive game from Hideo Kojima would have made the difference for Stadias future as a platform. According to Kojimas own timeline, Death Stranding entered development in 2015 and didnt launch until 2019. If the follow-up required a similar timescale, it wouldnt have even seen release before Google pulled the plug on Stadia.

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Maybe if you have shit taste

WB Discovery strikes again?

It tried to fight me, but I got around it by copypasting the offer confirm page when you first select to pay with paypal, opening it again in incognito, and relogging that way.

Good looking out tc.

Can't wait for the Rise of the Dawn of the War for the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

He's not going to jail is he? Messed up.

True if you mean truly not giving a fuck, but I took the topic more as in people who don't overly worry about what others are thinking when you are simply existing. You know, most people.

I would tell you what you need to do, but I already know what you are going to say.

You need to remember that most people don't care what you are doing. And who cares about the few that do? I only focus on being decent to the people around me.

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If you got to know them, you'd probably find that a lot of them aren't the sort of person you'd want to be.

You post about this shit every fuckin' day, just stop man.

I got called ugly by a Brazilian woman at Disney World.

I want those Funfetti ones

Not watching. What does this have to do with Olivia Wilde?

I agree. All his fans refuse to buy his products

Which version is the best, they got 2 on there.

Coolio died Wednesday in Los Angeles ... TMZ has learned.

The rapper who achieved enormous success in the 90s was visiting a friend late Wednesday afternoon when he passed away.
Coolio's longtime manager, Jarez, says Coolio went to the bathroom at his friend's house, but when he didn't come after a while the friend kept calling for him, and eventually went in and found Coolio laying on the floor.

We're told the friend called EMTs, who arrived and pronounced Coolio dead on the scene -- and Jarez tells us the paramedics suspect he suffered cardiac arrest. An official cause of death has not been determined. Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., came up on the L.A. rap scene in the late 80s, but blew up nationally in 1995 when he recorded "Gangsta's Paradise" for the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film, "Dangerous Minds."

Coolio was 59.

I've only noticed you today but several users have called you out on your negativity. Someone even PMed me about it because of another topic we were in. (star trek)