The Google Stadia team will add more than 100 games to its cloud gaming service this year, a new post on its community blog has revealed. In the post, the team highlighted nine of the titles that will hit the service in the near future, including FIFA 21 (March 17) and title for detective / action RPG Judgment (April 23) by the studio behind the Yakuza franchise.
Wayforward’s action platforms Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut will also be available to play on February 23rd. Risky’s Revenge was originally released for the DSi in 2010, and the Director’s Cut with enhanced features first came out for Windows in 2014. Meanwhile, Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition is the first full HD adventure of the belly dancing Shantae.
Triangle Studios’ It came from space and ate our brains is an arcade top-down shooter with brain-eating aliens invading Earth. It has a campaign mode that can accommodate up to four local players and will be available on March 2nd. Kaze and the Wild Masks, a side scroller with classic ’90s platformer elements and modern-looking pixel art graphics, arrives March 26. The team also featured three games with no release dates, starting with the strategic team platformer Killer Queen Black Street Power football, an arcade-style soccer game is also coming soon, as well as sci-fi action RPG Hellpoint
Stadia’s announcement comes shortly after Google closed Stadia game studios in Montreal and Los Angeles over the company’s decision to move away from developing first-party games. Google, Stadia vice president Phil Harrison, believed at the time that bringing third-party games to the platform is the “ best way to [the service] towards a sustainable company for the long term. It should have been one of those games Terrariums, but the Stadia release of the sandbox game was canceled after the co-creator’s Google accounts were suspended.