Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing

The Google Stadia Controller.

December 31st, 2025 is the deadline to save the Google Stadia controller. That's little than 3 weeks from contiguous - but there's ne'er been a amended time. Last month, I discovered the controller is yet a first-class national successful Steam and SteamOS.

The Stadia controller was primitively designed to link to your Wi-Fi web and remotely power games from Google's unreality servers. But erstwhile Stadia unopen down successful January 2023, the institution did an astonishing occupation shutting down the service: it offered afloat hardware refunds and fto you rescue the Stadia Controller by turning it into a generic Bluetooth gamepad instead.

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.