Google is finally adding YouTube integrations to game-streaming service Stadia. It also announced new exclusive developer partnerships at its Connect event.
Despite its track record of killing off less-than-popular services, Google showed that Stadia still has a little bit of fight left in it. During its Connect event on Tuesday, Google presented new exclusives, teased its upcoming partnerships, and finally added YouTube integrations to the platform. Here’s all the news we learned.
Google showed off its new Click to Play feature, which is little more than a link to a Stadia game in a YouTube video’s description. This is nowhere near as elegant as how the feature looked when Stadia was first revealed at the Game Developers Conference 2019, but it ostensibly provides the same result.
Click on the link, and you’re immediately taken to the game on Stadia. Another integration, where viewers of YouTube livestreams can play with the host by clicking a button in the chat, was shown off for 64-player battle royale game Super Bomberman R Online, which is coming first to Stadia. Unlike Click to Play, this feature looks exactly like it did during Stadia’s reveal.
