This week, the TechRaptor Podcast dives into the latest news from Google, which is officially winding down its Google Stadia cloud-gaming service. They also chat about Saudi Arabia’s latest plan to…
October 3, 2022 | 07:05 EDT
When is Google Stadia shutting down? That's been the question on many gamers' lips for a couple of years now, and it's one Google has deflected time and time again...until now. Google Stadia is…
September 29, 2022 | 01:13 EDT
If you're a Google Stadia fan, things have been rough recently. There's plenty of rumors over the service shutting down, the Google Stadia Demo Room was removed from the NYC Google Store, and last…
August 12, 2022 | 11:35 EDT
Google VP and Stadia product head John Justice has quit the company. Justice was in charge of Google Stadia consumer experience, which makes him the closest analogue Stadia has to Xbox's Phil Spencer…
May 4, 2021 | 09:10 EDT
The Federal Trade Commission has blasted Apple and Google, suggesting the two companies' prohibitive mobile platform charges force developers into predatory revenue streams. This comes in a statement…
January 8, 2021 | 09:15 EST
This week Google announced Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Thumper will be coming to Stadia Pro January 2020. On January 1, 2020, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration and Thumber will be…
December 30, 2019 | 12:30 EST
After announcing the 22 games for Stadia's beginning catalog, Google just announced that Massive Miniteam's multiplayer arcade game Spitlings will be joining that catalog as a timed-exclusive. …
November 29, 2019 | 11:30 EST
Today, Google shocked the world by officially announcing their much-awaited Google Play Pass with little in the way of promotion or buzz. The Google Play Pass is a subscription that will give users…
September 23, 2019 | 02:45 EDT
A climate change gaming partnership has been announced by the United Nations. Sony, Microsoft, Google, and a boatload of other gaming publishers and developers will be working together to reduce…
September 23, 2019 | 01:28 EDT
We just saw the first Stadia Connect, where Google shared more crucial information about their groundbreaking streaming service, which will allow players to enjoy games without a gaming PC or console…
June 6, 2019 | 02:15 EDT
Google has announced new guidelines for games and apps aimed at children. Developers that publish apps on the Google Play store will now be required to disclose if children are part of their intended…
May 31, 2019 | 03:45 EDT
Google developers have published a new post in the Android Developers Blog, detailing new features that aim to help developers release apps and games to grow their business on Google Play. Among…
May 9, 2019 | 05:51 EDT
Tencent, the biggest games company in the world, brought in nearly $20 billion of global games revenue last year. This number makes them the number one company in terms of revenue and converts to…
April 18, 2019 | 06:12 EDT
This week Google announced their debut to the home video game market. Not with a new entry into the hardware market and Google console but instead announcing Stadia. Stadia is a streaming service…
March 26, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Today at Google's GDC 2019 conference, the company announced some new features for streamers that allow for greater interactivity with their audience. Called Crowd Play and State Share, streamers…
March 19, 2019 | 02:59 EDT
The Stadia Controller accompanies Google's newest game streaming platform, Stadia. Announced at Google's GDC 2019, this controller is fine-tuned for Stadia and even includes two new buttons. Google…
March 19, 2019 | 02:30 EDT
At GDC 2019, Google held its own press conference focused on gaming. In it, they revealed a new platform called Stadia, tapping into humanity's history of building stadiums to play and watch games.…
March 19, 2019 | 02:22 EDT
Jade Raymond, the former producer for major gaming publishers such as Ubisoft and Electronic Arts, has joined Google. Raymond announced on twitter yesterday that she will be joining Google as a "VP…
March 14, 2019 | 03:40 EDT
BeatGamesStudio, the developers of Beat Saber, have announced an agreement to turn off ContentID on Youtube for a few tracks in the game. These few tracks were the only official tracks that had…
February 1, 2019 | 01:06 EST
The Steam VR Spring Sale has some great discounts on VR-only titles. Here's a sampling of what you can grab at a discount: Fallout 4 VR is exactly what it says on the tin - a VR version of Fallout 4…
April 19, 2018 | 09:49 EDT
Approximately one year ago, I wrote an article regarding the many problems that YouTube was facing at the time. It was a list that was born out of not only what I had seen happening on the platform…
August 29, 2017 | 12:00 EDT
After losing a battle over search results in Canadian court, Google has now turned to the American court. In late June, Google was ordered by the Supreme Court of Canada to remove certain search…
July 26, 2017 | 10:03 EDT
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Canadian courts can apply judgements worldwide in certain situations. Ruling 7-2, the court found that under Canadian law, courts can “grand an injunction…
June 29, 2017 | 12:45 EDT
Google has been hit with a 2.42B Euro fine for violating EU antitrust rules. The fine is rooted in charges that Google had unfairly given an advantage to its shopping comparison service at the…
June 28, 2017 | 08:30 EDT
Google Chrome will be expanding on its warnings about whether or not a site uses the HTTPS protocol. Aside from being the first four letters in any web address, HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer…
April 29, 2017 | 04:54 EDT
Google has announced PAX, the Android Networked Cross-License Agreement for devices in their software ecosystem. PAX - no relation to a certain webcomic convention - is intended to make it easy for…
April 4, 2017 | 10:30 EDT
The Google-owned streaming video behemoth YouTube have released a statement announcing the end of the annotations editor feature. This feature allowed creators to add little overlays to their videos…
March 23, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
99.95% of the copyright takedown notices received by Google are non-existent, according to Google. In a filing with the U.S. Copyright Office obtained by TorrentFreak, Google noted that there had…
February 27, 2017 | 09:04 EST
The Google Play Store on Android devices has been a popular spawning ground for so-called "zombie" apps and games. These apps exist on the store and are usually woefully lacking a privacy policy that…
February 12, 2017 | 08:45 EST
A reddit user has stumbled upon an issue that allows anyone access to a Steam account's email preferences through Google search, which also displays the email. Anyone can then change those email…
January 6, 2017 | 08:48 EST
Marking the end of an era, CyanogenMod is no more. The popular custom ROM for Android devices has been officially shut down by its parent company, Cyanogen Inc. The announcement came on the 23rd,…
December 28, 2016 | 09:54 EST
The Khronos Group has announced it will be working to form standard API's for VR. They expressed their desire to “define a cross-vendor, royalty-free, open standard for access to modern virtual…
December 7, 2016 | 02:28 EST
Security firm Check Point Software Technologies has found malware that has breached more than One Million Google Accounts. They’ve named this malware campaign “Gooligan”, and claim it is breaching a…
November 30, 2016 | 10:22 EST
Netflix has announced that offline play is now available. A widely-demanded feature, Netflix now joins competitors like Amazon Prime Video and Google Play in allowing users to temporarily cut the…
November 30, 2016 | 08:48 EST
Google announced on Monday that its advertising tools will soon be closed off to websites that promote fake news stories. A spokesperson from Google gave Reuters the following statement: Moving…
November 15, 2016 | 09:15 EST
Google may be scaling back Google Fiber, but not in Louisville. However, AT&T and other incumbent carriers have continued to fight against it, filing a lawsuit in Feburary. Today, the FCC has…
October 31, 2016 | 09:15 EDT
Speaking at a conference Munich earlier this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on large Internet platforms to disclose their algorithms to the public. Although she did not specify any…
October 28, 2016 | 05:11 EDT
Sony has announced they will be expanding their PS Vue service to Android TV devices. They announced on PlayStation Blog that the Android TV app will be available today, and that Windows and Mac…
October 27, 2016 | 06:07 EDT
The Federal Trade Commission(FTC) is warning that a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court may have removed the agency's ability to regulate companies like Google and Comcast. While the FTC…
October 17, 2016 | 09:45 EDT
Twitter stock plummeted 20% on Thursday, following reports that potential bidders were not interested in buying the company. Twitter has seen a series a dismal quarterly reports in the past year,…
October 7, 2016 | 07:09 EDT
YouTube has added the 'YouTube Heroes Program', which allows users to mass flag videos when they reach the third of five total 'Levels.' Users enrolled in the program will gain points towards these…
September 21, 2016 | 12:26 EDT
Eyeo, the ad blocking company Adblock Plus (ABP) has announced that it is launching its own advertisement platform. This is an extension of ABP's acceptable ads program that has been running for…
September 15, 2016 | 08:31 EDT
Terms of Services for a website are a fluid thing. As sites grow and mature, the content of their Terms and Services changes, as does the frequency that they enforce it. Unfortunately, it seems that…
August 31, 2016 | 09:08 EDT
Every new version of media has their ups and downs. From newspapers to television, you can't expect a new media empire to start up without some bumps along the way. However, one might also expect a…
August 1, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
The main screen and map that you'll walk around in You could go up to any Pokémon fan and ask them, "Would you want Pokémon in real life?" and the answer would be an emphatic yes. That's exactly…
July 11, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Reuters reports that Google and Facebook have quietly begun using automated systems to take down extremist videos. The systems are similar to Google's Content ID system to take down copyright…
June 27, 2016 | 10:27 EDT
The European Commission announced a new code of conduct which is intended to combat hate speech online. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft have agreed to abide by the code. The agreement…
May 31, 2016 | 09:54 EDT
On Thursday, Oracle was delivered a blow in its years-long litigation against Google’s use of Java in Android. A jury has determined that Google’s use of Java Application Programing Interfaces (API)…
May 28, 2016 | 12:47 EDT