As Google prepares to finally shut down its Stadia streaming service, there have been a few parting gifts emerge from his downfall. Users were given one final game, as well as the ability to unlock their controllers’ Bluetooth capabilities (although that was something they should have done from day one), but one of the last surprises we can all enjoy. Especially those of us who never paid for Stadia.
Back in 2020 Necrosoft (Finally) released gun sport, a sci-fi take on 2D volleyball, exclusive to Stadia. It was pretty cool! It was also, as a Stadia exclusive, a game most of us never got to enjoy. In June 2022 it is was followed by a Consequence, hypergun sportwhich was much more widespread since it came out on PC, Switch, Xbox and PlayStation.
While two are completely separate Games, they have now been brought much closer, as Necrosoft said in a tweet today “Because we care about game preservation, we created an offline version of gun sport available in the Steam version of hypergun sportvia the beta channel.”
You can watch a video of this game smuggling (performed by Necrosoft’s Lotte May) in action under:
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If you’ve never had to use a Steam game’s beta channel system before, the video above gives you a quick tour of how to activate the original game and then easily switch between playing and the sequel.
That’s a very cool move! Not just because people are essentially getting a free video game, but because this is a super interesting way to implement a form of game preservation that thinks for itself path outside of the box, but thanks to the way Steam is structured, so does it seems to work damn well!
