It’s Christmas time, the year is coming to an end and between the holidays one or the other will surely have to work again. The rest is then either digesting the Christmas roast or has a little interest in gambling, among other ways to pass the time until New Year’s Eve. Stefan’s cloud gaming review might fit the picture quite well, this time for the past 51st calendar week.
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In the last week we have already described in detail the possibilities of how you can save your saved games and, if necessary, transfer them to other platforms. As a small addition: At Ubisoft, the following games on Stadia are compatible with synchronization via Ubisoft Connect:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Far cry 6
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
- Watch Dogs: Legion
For more information, please read the article from calendar week 50/2022 again. Be sure to check your email inbox. There should have been several, but at least one email from Ubisoft about Stadia. Look there urgently, even if it looks like advertising. A 1-month free key for GeForce Now Priority is hidden in this email. For me, the title of this email was “Stadia will be shut down on January 18, 2023”.
Any Ubisoft games you’ve purchased from Stadia should now also be available via Ubisoft Connect on PC and compatible cloud gaming platforms. It worked wonderfully for me. For example, on GeForce Now you can connect your Ubisoft account and sync the games. In addition, Ubisoft gives you some information to the hand.
It’s also very interesting Point, that we will get the same or a higher quality edition. However, I didn’t notice it with my titles.
That all sounds pretty good. How did things go for you?
Xcloud
Unfortunately, some games will be phased out of Gamepass starting January 1, 2023. The following games were affected:
- Iron Harvest
- Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars
- tropical 6
- Scarlet Nexus
- Secret Neighbor
- Outer Wilds
- Gorogoa
- The Pedestrian
- Embr
These are then no longer available via cloud gaming. We also show you which games rotate from the service every month on our YouTube channel. There are 2 videos for December: Part 1 and Part 2.
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New games:
- The Official Father Christmas (’89 Amsterdam)
- Cauldron (’85 Amstrad)
- Mig 29: Soviet Fighter (’92 NES)
New challenges:
- Double Dragon 2 with Double Hardest
- Flea! with The Blood Bank
- R-Type with Arrowhead to Glory
Blacknut Games
Blacknut also has a few new games. 9 to be precise.
- Blackwind
- obey me
- Krut: The Mythic Wings
- Azkend 2 : The World Beneath
- King Oddball
- Sparkle Unleashed
- sparkle 2
- Tesla VS Lovecraft
- Xenoraid: The First Space War
GeForce Now
Pretty quiet on GeForce Now. That doesn’t change this week either.
New here:
Monopoly Madness is getting a major update with Dino City.
boosteroid
This week also a big update for Boosteroid. These are the new games:
Excitingly, Boosteroid is currently testing something we already know from Stadia: direct streaming to YouTube from the virtual machine. The whole thing is not yet widely available, but it might look like this:
As always the hint. Please note that these versions are not officially supported by either the developers or the publisher. The service can add virtually any game via some sort of loophole. Technically, Boosteroid rents out a cloud machine onto which the game is installed and then you can play it. Hence the “Install” game collection on the dashboard.
utomy
The catalog of the small provider Utomik is slowly but surely building up. New at the end of the year:
- corpse party
- Reverie Knights Tactics
- night call
- Star Renegades
- wolf ride
Nintendo switch
Resident Evil 7 has landed on the Nintendo Switch, even with all DLC content and via cloud gaming. I was able to test the game in advance and am quite enthusiastic about the implementation. Especially on the OLED version, the dark, the horror comes across very well on the small console. Graphically, it’s roughly on par with current consoles, at 60 fps. Good job again.
The demo is free, after that it costs €39.99.
Amazon Luna
Still only US-only, but we hope that it will be released in Germany soon. There are three new games:
- time on Frog Island
- Yakuza Kiwami
- WRC Generations
Three more are out:
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
- The Surge
- Star Wars Pinball
By the way, there are currently 270 games in it Amazon Service.
PlayStationPlus
news from the Playstation Cloud. The new Playstation Extra and Premium games are now also available on the PC client.
The following games are included:
Some titles will soon be leaving the subscription. That would be:
Shadow PC
Start update, there are fixes!
- New Launcher 4.36.4, Renderer 4.6.0 and Overlay 1.26.5 in beta
Corrections:
- Added help message for failed logins
- Fixed modal standby message display bug
- Controller mappings updated
- ShadowUSB driver updated (bug fixes and updated list of compatible devices)
- Fixed several crashes and minor bugs
- Overlay 1.26.6 hotfix in beta
Corrections:
- USB devices should now be better recognized in the Shadow Overlay (Quick Menu).
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Logitech G PRO X gaming headset, over-ear headphones with Blue VO!CE microphone,… | 71.99 EUR | View at Amazon |
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About our guest author:
Stefan Dehnert
co-founder of cloudplaya German-speaking community with a talk show, podcast, regular streams and videos on Youtube and Discord. We have guests from the industry, developers, publishers, streamers, influencers, but in the end everything: gamers. An overview of the guests, content and more can be found on the associated website.
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