Google Stadia launches tomorrow, and boy oh boy am I excited to see how the thing performs in the real world. We know that the system actually works pretty damned well under ideal conditions, so it’ll be interesting to see what it’s like for the average trigger-happy consumer. Remember that tomorrow’s launch is a bit of a soft one; it’s …

Google Stadia is launching next week, and just about everything I’ve heard about the launch period makes me think that the service isn’t quite ready for prime time just yet. We already know that one of its best features will be missing, and that many who pre-ordered won’t get their pre-orders on launch date. We also know that the system has a pretty meagre launch line up.

When Stadia launches next week, it’ll have just a single launch exclusive – a lone game amongst a dozen or so great games that have been available on other platforms for ages.

Google’s now released the list of games that’ll be available for launch, and if I didn’t already think that the Google Stadia was set to be little more than a curiosity, I certainly do now. Stadia will launch next week with just 12 games available for purchase.

An isometric role-playing game that takes plenty of inspiration from the likes of Diablo, Darksiders Genesis is action with the hackiest and slashiest tuning, with a good dollop of co-op thrown in for good measure as players step into the boots of War and Strife. Will it be any good? You’ll be able to find out on December 5 when the game launches on PC and Google Stadia according to THQ Nordic.

Google’s Stadia is coming on November 9. At least, it’ll be coming to the early adopters who pre-ordered the cloud-based streaming system’s Founder’s Edition. It'll be missing its biggest feature though.

Yesterday at its great big event for the Pixel 4, Google revealed the final launch date for its generation-defying cloud-based gaming platform, Stadia. We knew that it was set to be unleashed on the world in November, but now we know exactly when it’ll be available: November 19.

Next month, Google will officially launch its cloud gaming enterprise, Stadia. Using the power of the cloud and their own processing farms, Google will allow players to play the latest and greatest games, without having to own expensive hardware. Instead, with a Chromecast Ultra and a connected controller, they’ll be able to buy games and play them on their TVs, beamed in real time over the internet, with their inputs streamed back to Google servers – with this going back and forth as people play games. It works - but it will soon work even better.