{"id":122052,"date":"2020-12-14T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/375232"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:59:00","slug":"subscription-library-ubisoft-is-now-on-google-stadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/subscription-library-ubisoft-is-now-on-google-stadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Subscription library Ubisoft+ is now on Google Stadia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ubisoft has officially launched its pay-for-access subscription library Ubisoft+ on Google Stadia, essentially rolling all the benefits of cloud-based game services into its $14.99 per month service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plans to bring Ubisoft+, once known as Uplay+, to Stadia started to solidify back in October<\/a>, with the freshly rebranded service announcing all at once that it’ll introduce cross-platform progression and that it plans to launch on both Amazon Luna and Google Stadia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stadia’s free tier requires only a Google account compatible device (Chrome Browser, mobile phone, or TV-tethered Chromecast Ultra) to play, meaning any Ubisoft+ subscribers can now access and play a library of first-party Ubisoft games without needing to own a beefy PC or console. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to Engadget<\/a>, this first wave is only opening up access to Ubisoft+ and Stadia users in the United States and will gradually roll out access between now and December 16. As another caveat, not all of the service’s 100+ games will be eligible for cloud-based play. Ubisoft has yet to share a full list it seems, but looks like its latest three big releases–Assassin’s Creed Valhalla<\/em>, Watch Dogs: Legion<\/em>, and Immortals Fenyx Rising<\/em>–all made the cut. <\/span><\/p>\n

This isn’t Ubisoft’s first foray into the cloud by any means. In addition to weeks of Amazon Luna support <\/span>(in beta), Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey<\/em> was notably the game featured front and center in Google’s early cloud-based game streaming beta “Project Stream”, even before it had coined the Stadia moniker.<\/p>\n

Around that same time, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot described the Project Stream partnership<\/a> as an enticing way for developers like Ubisoft to reach more players outside of the PC and console space with triple-A titles,<\/p>\n

“We think in the medium term this will give us games that have a lot more appeal than what we have today,\u201d  Guillemot told investors back in that 2018 earnings call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ubisoft has officially launched its pay-for-access subscription library Ubisoft+ on Google Stadia, essentially rolling all the benefits of cloud-based game services into its $14.99 per month service. Plans to bring Ubisoft+, once known as Uplay+, to Stadia started to solidify back in October, with the freshly rebranded service announcing all at once that it’ll introduce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}