{"id":17521,"date":"2022-09-30T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/game-devs-and-stadia-employees-alike-were-blindsided-by-the-sudden-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:10:00","slug":"game-devs-and-stadia-employees-alike-were-blindsided-by-the-sudden-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/game-devs-and-stadia-employees-alike-were-blindsided-by-the-sudden-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Few thought Google\u2019s troubled streaming service, Stadia, might ever become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but almost no one expected it to <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/stadia-google-refund-cloud-streaming-assassins-creed-1849597014\">shut down so abruptly<\/a>, including the company\u2019s own employees. Stadia VP Phil Harrison, fast becoming the grim reaper of new gaming initiatives, informed staff of the\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/stadia-google-bungie-destiny-2-cyberpunk-2077-red-dead-1849601243\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few thought Google\u2019s troubled streaming service, Stadia, might ever become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but almost no one expected it to shut down so abruptly, including the company\u2019s own employees. Stadia VP Phil Harrison, fast becoming the grim reaper of new gaming initiatives, informed staff of the\u2026 Read more&#8230; Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17522,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5609,745,2350],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-googles","tag-thought","tag-troubled"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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