Google Stadia will let publishers offer their own gaming subscriptions

The head of Google’s upcoming Stadia game streaming service, Phil Harrison, has said publishers will be allowed to offer their own game subscriptions through the streaming service. In an interview with Geoff Keighley during YouTube’s E3 Live show, RockPaperShotgun reports that Harrison said he expects publishers to start thinking about their own subscriptions “in relatively short order” and that Google will “support that on [its] platform, and we’ll see some announcements in due course around that.”

Harrison stopped short of saying which publishers would be offering a subscription through Stadia, simply indicating that it’ll probably be “publishers who have bigger catalogs and more significant line-ups.” However, Electronic Arts would be…

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