Stadia, we hardly knew ye. Or cared.

You're often judged by the company you keep,
which is why it may not have been wise for the
Stadia to hang around with a Dreamcast, a
Power Glove, and ET for the Atari 2600.
(image from USA Today)

I'd like to close out the month with this news... Google hasn't just abandoned their cloud gaming service Stadia, they're hastily trying to blot it from existence, without so much as an early warning for developers who were making games for the service. Rude. At least the players who took a ride on this Hindenburg are getting their money back from any Stadia purchases they made.

One could argue that the Stadia project was foolhardy from the word "go," and that cloud gaming just cannot work in a country as large and with such poor internet infrastructure as the United States. Google should have known better, but sometimes you've just got to let stubbornly stupid people stick a butter knife in an electrical outlet before they learn not to do it again.