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.

The impending Google Stadia launch just seems to be going from bad to worse. Google recently surreptitiously revealed that the system’s controller won’t be able to wirelessly, seamlessly jump from system to system – taking one of the system’s best features away from the launch. Instead, players would have to use a cable if they wanted to play their Stadia games on their PCs, tablets and phones at launch. Now it seems some who pre-orders won’t be able to play any games at all.

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.

In 2016, Google launched its own VR platform for phones, called Daydream. Annnnd it's dead.

Unlike E3’s gauntlet of livestreamed events which play out over several unrelenting days at the ungodliest of hours for anyone East of the ol’ GMT timezone, Gamescom is a more focused affair. This year will see three of the big names in gaming take to the stage with plenty of studios spread between them: Microsoft with their Inside Xbox event, Google will host another direct spot of streaming focused on Stadia and Geoff Keighley will host the Gamescom Opening Night festivities.

Andrey Doronichev was asked a series of questions last night regarding Google’s foray into streaming videogames.

Google Stadia! It’s the future of gaming, if you happen to enjoy playing games that you already own on various consoles through a streaming connection. It all sounds like magic when you think about it: Provided that you’ve got a decent internet connection and happen to live in a country that Google gives a damn about.

Google has finally taken the wraps off of its Stadia game-streaming service. In a special presentation they called Stadia Connect, Google revealed the games that’ll be coming to Stadia when it launches in November, what they’ll cost and how the service in general works. Former PlayStation man Phil Harrison kicked off Stadia Connect, telling us about the first wave of …