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Google Stadia: the latest news about the cloud gaming platform

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Sean Hollister
Leave no button behind.

You have until 12/31/23 to save your Stadia Controller by converting it to a Bluetooth gamepad — and devs can rescue its more exotic buttons, too. Today, Google’s showing even web games can listen for the Capture and Assistant buttons using WebHID.

Fingers crossed Valve is adding the Stadia pad to Steam Input so we can configure it ourselves; that seems way better than hoping web devs do.

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