Stadia will get Chorus on December 5

It was a fairly quiet week for Google Stadia, but it came with an official release date for Chorus, the upcoming AAA-quality shooter as well as some other important updates.

Stadia Changelog is a weekly series on 9to5Google where we round up some of the Stadia news that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to talk about. This includes a roundup of which new games were released on Stadia during the week, which games saw updates and patches, new games either confirmed or speculated for the platform, and more. Come back every Friday, and don’t forget to check out Bandwidth, our weekly look at the rest of the cloud gaming world, including GeForce Now, Luna, and more.

New games on Stadia

At the time of publishing, no new games were added to Stadia this week, but The Addams Family Mansion Mayhem was scheduled for release today. The family-focused game from Outright Games may show up after this column is published.

As of this week, Google has added 77 games to Stadia in the calendar year 2021 on its way to the promise of at least 100 titles added this year.

Updates

Chorus is coming to Stadia in December

Following its reveal last year and confirmation that the game would be coming to Stadia, Chorus has announced its release date. The game will launch this December 3, and a new trailer has been released to celebrate the date.

The game’s developers have also confirmed that Chorus will arrive on Stadia right alongside other platforms on that date.

Embr gets its 1.0 update w/ crossplay, more

As announced previously, Embr has graduated from early access to its v1.0 update. The update brings support for new levels as well as cross-play between Google Stadia and other platforms. Or, at least that was the plan. The developers confirmed on Twitter that the update had hit a snag on Stadia and would be delayed to September 30.

Heads up to our Stadia players. We’ve run into an issue with the second half of our launch update on Stadia. You’ll still be getting the new mutator missions tomorrow, but the new level will be delayed until Sept 30, and crossplatform play will be disabled until that time. Sorry!
— Embr 🔥 (@EmbrGame) September 22, 2021

Google actually used the Stadia mobile app to send a notification to let players know about the update which isn’t fully live yet.

Google Stadia may soon be adding private/public parties

As spotted by community member @GemBearGaming, Stadia seems to be preparing support for public/private parties, as well as changing the interface for sending a party invite. Some of the changes are already live, but some elements appear to be a work in progress.

Blue Fire expansion coming next week

Launching on September 30, Blue Fire will be getting its first expansion in “The Void of Sorrows.” The expansion will be free on all platforms.

Outwards patch may be incoming

A Redditor claims that the developers behind Outwards confirmed on a Discord server that a patch for the game’s Stadia port has been submitted to Google for certification. Apparently, a bug has been affecting the game negatively for the past several weeks. We have not been able to verify this claim, so take it with a grain of salt.

From Space demo seeing ‘lots of activity‘

Launched last week as a totally free-to-play game, the demo for the upcoming multiplayer game “From Space” has apparently picked up some traction on Stadia, the developers said on Twitter.

We launched our @FromSpaceGame demo on #GoogleStadia yesterday. While events like Next Fest feature thousands of demos, we are currently the ONLY multiplayer demo on the platform.
We’re seeing lots of activity already. I’m really happy to see people discovering #FROMSPACE.
— Remco de Rooij (@remcoooooo) September 15, 2021

Life is Strange: Remastered gets a new release date

After being delayed from its September launch, the Life is Strange: Remastered collection has a new release date. The game will be released on February 1, 2022 on all platforms including Stadia.