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In a bid to reduce the waste Google will produce for its gaming peripherals, the Stadia Controller Salvage Operation is extending its service to the world, allowing its owners to convert their gaming ...

The Google Stadia Controller was pretty much the only piece of consumer hardware that came from the company’s cloud gaming project, but it would have been useless without the platform to go with it.

The Google Stadia controller conversion tool is dead. Officially dead. After having been initially slotted for a shutdown back in 2023, Google extended the timing and gave the tool a longer lifespan.

Google has added controller remapping in Android 17 Beta, allowing gamers to customize how their gamepad buttons, sticks, and triggers behave.

Google has extended the time limit you have to convert a Google Stadia controller to Bluetooth. You now have until December 31, 2025, representing an extension of one year. It might come to pass that ...

The whole point of Google Stadia was to play games without requiring expensive hardware, but there was one piece of hardware created for the cloud service. The Stadia Controller hasn’t been on sale ...

Stadia might be dead, but the controllers for Google’s cloud-based gaming platform are still out there. With the service permanently offline, the proprietary Stadia Controller threatened to fill up ...

Google killed its Stadia game streaming service earlier this year. But the company also released a tool that allowed anyone with a Stadia Controller to convert it from a WiFi-only tool for cloud ...

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