Google announces video game streaming service to let you play anywhere

Today, Google unveiled Stadia, a service that will let people play video games without the need for dedicated consoles or high-end computers. Instead, gamers will be to play on standard laptops, tablets or phones, with all the heavyweight processing performed on Google's servers. The platform will let users immediately play any game that is available on the service, without the need to purchase it individually or download a copy to their device. "Stadia offers instant access to play," said Google's Phil Harrison in an announcement at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Stadia is a cloud gaming service, meaning that processing and graphics rendering will be performed at Google data centres.