https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmawm/google-stadia-game-streaming-game-history-and-modding

Rich Whitehouse is a video game preservationist and a veteran programmer in the video game industry. This story was originally published on Whitehouse's website.

Yesterday, Google announced Stadia, a video game streaming and development platform that leverages the tech giant's data centers around the world to let users play high-end video games on practically any screen, with no need for a console or PC. We still don't know what Stadia will cost users, what games it will offer, and if it will even work as advertised, but in light of Google's announcement, it's worth taking a hard look at what this really means for the future—and more importantly, the history—of video games.