Google Stadia Connect Gamescom 2019 live report Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Google Stadia Connect Gamescom 2019 live report It was nothing. Blog by Martin Robinson Editor-in-chief Updated on 19 Aug 2019 248 comments Seriously. It was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Don't even bother reading this. Just move on. Our live coverage of this event has finished. Coverage 16:40 pm UTC *Ahem* – Martin Robinson 16:40 pm UTC Hi! – Martin Robinson 16:40 pm UTC Sorry for looking all flustered. My hair's a mess too - I've just rushed over from the Inside Xbox show. – Martin Robinson 16:41 pm UTC When I say just rushed over, I do mean of course that I just closed one window on my browser and opened another one. In the process I might have shifted a couple of millimetres on the sofa too. – Martin Robinson 16:41 pm UTC And my hair is always a mess. – Martin Robinson 16:41 pm UTC Anyway, let's Google! In 20 minutes, once I've got myself a drink. – Martin Robinson 16:43 pm UTC My favourite rumour from the Stadia reveal earlier this year - going around the queue as we waited for the showcase - was that Google had bought a load of old Sega IP and was handing them out to devs. – Martin Robinson 16:43 pm UTC Outrun 3, a new Golden Axe - that kind of thing. – Martin Robinson 16:43 pm UTC Complete bollocks, I'm sure, but that was a fun few minutes and it made the queue more bearable. – Martin Robinson 16:58 pm UTC Three minutes to go. And I'm still scrambling around trying to set up the 7pm live report like a true professional. – Martin Robinson 16:58 pm UTC Deffo 100 per cent cancelled. – Martin Robinson 16:59 pm UTC Kami: Whatever happened to Jasper Carrot? Oh man I still have a massive soft spot for Jasper Carrott. – Martin Robinson 16:59 pm UTC Still, probably cancelled. – Martin Robinson 17:00 pm UTC Really was hoping any delay for this one would be met with a 'connecting' screen on the live stream. – Martin Robinson 17:01 pm UTC And we're live, with Ray Bautista. – Martin Robinson 17:01 pm UTC He says it's going to be a brief presentation, which after that bum-numbing Inside Xbox is super, super welcome. – Martin Robinson 17:01 pm UTC He also has very vertical hair. – Martin Robinson 17:02 pm UTC Whoosh! It's all going skywards. – Martin Robinson 17:02 pm UTC AddressUnknown: Martin. Not sure if it should be, but this isn't on the front page of the site. Good. It can be our little secret! – Martin Robinson 17:03 pm UTC OMG I just spotted. Maybe they're like little ears? – Martin Robinson 17:03 pm UTC Shanna's hair is much more down to earth. – Martin Robinson 17:04 pm UTC She's listing off the places that Google has travelled in its efforts to get Stadia up and running, and her eyes suggest it's all taken its toll. – Martin Robinson 17:04 pm UTC Cyberpunk 2077 - if you haven't heard of it, I think it might be quite big - gets its moment. – Martin Robinson 17:04 pm UTC And if you're talking about games you can play on Stadia, they really don't get much bigger than Cyberpunk 2077. – Martin Robinson 17:05 pm UTC I think the pitch is more graphics, less outlay, more convenience. – Martin Robinson 17:05 pm UTC But at the moment it all seems a bit obscured by a business model that is confusing and doesn't play to the platform's strengths. – Martin Robinson 17:06 pm UTC I'm hoping that this is going to be more than a succession of games we already know plenty about being confirmed as coming to Stadia. – Martin Robinson 17:07 pm UTC Also yes my feed is lagging here, which is not the greatest advert for streaming. – Martin Robinson 17:07 pm UTC And as if they heard me, we're now seeing Destiny 2: Shadowkeep. – Martin Robinson 17:07 pm UTC Oh no wait, we knew all about that one too. – Martin Robinson 17:08 pm UTC Kami: I get the idea of streaming, it's just... until we have some sort of parity with internet speeds, isn't this going to be heavily dependent on location? Yay, city folks get all the good cheap gaming stuff and those in the backwoods have to buy big expensive towers still Serves you right for living in the countryside. – Martin Robinson 17:08 pm UTC (It is going to be interesting though how this is going to scale for more rural players). – Martin Robinson 17:09 pm UTC Oooh, the first game I didn't know about - and it looks a bit Stephen's Sausage Roll - and I don't even know how to spell its name. – Martin Robinson 17:10 pm UTC Which is great for the purposes of this live text. Anyway, it's a cute little 3D platformer that also maybe reminds me of Devil Dice. – Martin Robinson 17:10 pm UTC And it's Kine. – Martin Robinson 17:10 pm UTC (It was announced last March, it turns out, I'm just very slow). – Martin Robinson 17:11 pm UTC Darksiders Genesis is Darksiders meets Diablo, if that sounds like something you'd like. – Martin Robinson 17:11 pm UTC A new exclusive game! – Martin Robinson 17:12 pm UTC It's a new Orcs Must Die. – Martin Robinson 17:12 pm UTC I'd forgotten all about Orcs Must Die. – Martin Robinson 17:13 pm UTC I didn't even realise there was a second one. This is Orcs Must Die 3! – Martin Robinson 17:14 pm UTC The lag I'm getting frequently on this stream suggests they are at least doing something Stadia-exclusive. – Martin Robinson 17:16 pm UTC Some more Stadia-related stuff, though - it's about having access to massive computing power anywhere, so expect mega dense waves of enemies in Orcs Must Die 3. – Martin Robinson 17:16 pm UTC And speaking of massive computing power! Here's Windjammers 2, which you can probably run on your fridge. – Martin Robinson 17:16 pm UTC It's more Windjammers, though, which is a great thing - I played this a bit earlier this year, and while it doesn't add much to the formula beyond a new spike move, it's decent enough. – Martin Robinson 17:17 pm UTC AddressUnknown: Not sure we need a Windjammers sequel. The original is perfect. Truth. – Martin Robinson 17:17 pm UTC Destroy All Humans, in choppy Stadia-vision now. – Martin Robinson 17:18 pm UTC Mortal Kombat 11 now - let's see how a big existing game adapts to Stadia. – Martin Robinson 17:18 pm UTC Lag is the answer, it seems. – Martin Robinson 17:19 pm UTC I'm on a 60mbps connection here, so I'm sure this is a problem their side. It's all quite amusing, but it's definitely not encouraging me to part with hard cash to be there day one with Stadia. – Martin Robinson 17:20 pm UTC Please just blink. – Martin Robinson 17:20 pm UTC Ooooh! She blinked! – Martin Robinson 17:20 pm UTC God that was a relief. My eyes were drying out just watching that. – Martin Robinson 17:20 pm UTC Superhot, which today came to Switch meaning you can play it anywhere, is coming to Stadia. – Martin Robinson 17:21 pm UTC Oooh they will need to up their game a bit. – Martin Robinson 17:21 pm UTC Which in fairness they do by announcing some new Superhot content. – Martin Robinson 17:22 pm UTC A Farming Simulator game now. – Martin Robinson 17:22 pm UTC Way to piss on their parade! – Martin Robinson 17:23 pm UTC Farming Simulator 2019. Coming to Stadia. (Pretty sure it's on Switch too). – Martin Robinson 17:23 pm UTC Samurai Shodown - which is a bonafide brilliant game and one I should have probably given an Essential to - is also coming to Stadia. – Martin Robinson 17:24 pm UTC To be fair input lag is a thing on the Switch and that doesn't even have the excuses that Stadia has. – Martin Robinson 17:24 pm UTC But yeah this is a truly mediocre showing so far from Google. – Martin Robinson 17:24 pm UTC GarciaHotspur: SamSho is so nice. Ain't it just. – Martin Robinson 17:25 pm UTC This really should have been a press release. – Martin Robinson 17:25 pm UTC Maybe not even that. A tweet? – Martin Robinson 17:25 pm UTC That could be going too far. Just could have been small talk while we were waiting for the coffee machine to do its thing. – Martin Robinson 17:25 pm UTC Doom Eternal is coming to Stadia, as we knew, but with added stutter. – Martin Robinson 17:26 pm UTC Grid, Attack on Titan 2. More trailers for games we already knew were Stadia-bound. – Martin Robinson 17:27 pm UTC What an utterly pointless waste of time this has been. – Martin Robinson 17:27 pm UTC I was sort of excited about Stadia before this. – Martin Robinson 17:28 pm UTC This has been one 30 minute vibe kill so far. – Martin Robinson 17:29 pm UTC Elder Scrolls Online is also coming to Stadia. We knew that already. – Martin Robinson 17:29 pm UTC If anyone from Google is reading this, what were you trying to achieve today? – Martin Robinson 17:29 pm UTC I never understand why companies request the world's attention for shows like this only to pick fluff from their belly buttons for 30 minutes. – Martin Robinson 17:29 pm UTC Or 90 minutes with added screaming, if you're Microsoft. – Martin Robinson 17:30 pm UTC It just makes me a bit sad/angry that they're so willing to waste everyone's time with absolutely nothing. – Martin Robinson 17:31 pm UTC INSOMANiAC: This is a total embarrassment. The lag is the cherry on a cake make of shit. Human shit. That is one way of putting it. A quite eloquent one, at that. – Martin Robinson 17:31 pm UTC I never thought I'd say this, but... – Martin Robinson 17:31 pm UTC Geoff Keighley. Save us. – Martin Robinson 17:31 pm UTC But yes this Borderlands 3 trailer is a lot of fun so we've all got that to cling to. – Martin Robinson 17:33 pm UTC I was a bit optimistic with the 30 minutes thing there. – Martin Robinson 17:33 pm UTC Watch Dogs 3 - a new trailer. – Martin Robinson 17:34 pm UTC Dick Van Dyke confirmed. – Martin Robinson 17:34 pm UTC And Helen Mirren too, which I'll take. – Martin Robinson 17:34 pm UTC I do love the look of this, mostly because of it reminds me of the excellent ZombiU. – Martin Robinson 17:35 pm UTC Secret best game of the past 20 years. – Martin Robinson 17:35 pm UTC (Okay maybe I shouldn't go that far, but it was bloody good). – Martin Robinson 17:36 pm UTC And that was it. – Martin Robinson 17:36 pm UTC Wow. What a lot of absolutely nothing. – Martin Robinson 17:36 pm UTC One of the most pointless shows/briefings I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through. – Martin Robinson 17:37 pm UTC I liked that chap's anti-grav hair though. – Martin Robinson 17:37 pm UTC Haha, thanks for obliging. And thanks for joining me. Oh well, Geoff is next. Surely that will have *something* to show? – Martin Robinson 17:37 pm UTC See you in 20 minutes. I'm going to be drinking. – Martin Robinson Comments Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Blogs Digital Foundry DF Direct Weekly: do we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remake? 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