Stadia aims to add more than 120 games in 2020, including 10 exclusive games

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Stadia aims to add more than 120 games in 2020, including 10 exclusive games

Remember Stadium, launching in November 2019 in a not-quite-so-great state, acquiring studios, adding achievements, and, well, that's pretty much it. Not the most auspicious of starts, with the potential for revolutionary new game technology, but bigger things are planned for 2020, including a major expansion of the game library.

"Looking at our upcoming lineup, there are over 120 games coming to Stadia in 2020, and in the first half of this year alone, there will be over 10 games available exclusively on Stadia," the Stadia team said in an update posted today. We are working with our partners to share more details about these games in the coming days."

Other new features planned for Q1 2020 include support for 4K games on the web (though 4K/HDR streaming is currently only available on Chromecast Ultra), enhanced Google Assistant functionality while playing on the web (also currently not available on PC, sorry), additional Android phone support, and wireless gameplay over the web via the Stadia controller.

Words like "tracking" and "targeting" don't necessarily inspire great confidence, but given the potential delays of even a major project like "Cyberpunk 2077," for example, it's reasonable to exercise some caution. That said, the fact that Google announced 10 Stadia-exclusive titles in the middle of a bland update, with no fanfare, no titles, nothing, except that they will be "only available on Stadia at launch," perhaps as timed exclusives rather than permanent exclusives, is more interesting. But it's a strange way to dump what should be a pretty big announcement of exclusive releases, isn't it?

"There are many more to come this year. In the meantime, we hope gamers are gearing up for great new games and experiences," Google said.

"Later this month, we'll be sharing more details about the games coming to Stadia Pro in February.

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