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‘Sekiro’ And ‘Dead by Daylight’ Coming to Google Stadia This Fall
Google honestly hasn’t had the best launch to its Stadia service, but they’re certainly not giving up. Announced today during the Stadia Connect event are two more additions to the service in Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight and FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Both titles will make their Stadia debuts this Fall, with Dead By Daylight arriving in September.
For Stadia users, Behaviour have cooked up two exclusive features for Dead by Daylight in Crowd Play and Crowd Choice. Crowd Choice allows the community to vote and influence a YouTube streamer’s match. They will choose whether the influencer will play as a Killer or a Survivor, followed by which character. As for Crowd Play, streamers will be able to invite their community to join in on a trial at the touch of a button.
“Launching on Stadia is an exciting step towards next generation platforms,” stated Dead by Daylight director Mathieu Cote. “Dead by Daylight has always done well on YouTube, it makes for such a good show. Working with Stadia allows us to push it a step further and let our community actively engage with their favorite streamers through Crowd Play and Crowd Choice.”
Dead by Daylight and Sekiro are also available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
GSC Game World will be bringing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl fans the first expansion next month when “Cost of Hope” launches on August 20. The release will coincide with a new 2.0 update for the game. The devs will release more info on the expansion and the update in the coming weeks.
In Cost of Hope, players once again step into the role of Skif — the protagonist of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — as a mysterious PDA signal draws him into events unfolding alongside the main game’s story. Players will explore uncharted locations, encounter unexpected allies and enemies, discover powerful weapons, and experience a new story. With dozens of hours of content, your choices will shape the future of the Zone in this major new chapter of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. saga.
Launching in line with Cost of Hope will be a “massive” Update 2.0 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Available as a free update to all owners of the game, the update will upgrade the game to a new version of Unreal Engine 5, as well as bring a variety of new content and improvements.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl will launch for PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store and GOG.com, the Xbox Series and PlayStation 5.