Stadia rises from the dead with… House Of The Dead Switch Remake

metro.co.uk:

Google hasn’t quite given up on the Stadia service yet, with an age-rating listing revealing it’s getting The House Of The Dead remake.

It’s been nearly a year since a remake of classic Sega rail shooter House Of The Dead was announced for the Nintendo Switch. While there have been very few updates on its development, it sounds like it’s not even a Switch exclusive anymore.

Two listings for the remake can be found on the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) website. While there is one for the Switch, the second lists it coming to Google Stadia.

This may seem odd at first considering Google has supposedly given up on securing third party games for the Stadia service and is now more interested in selling the technology.

However, according to Stadia Source, the deal to put the House Of The Dead remake on Stadia may have been made in late 2020. It previously discovered a statement from developer Forever Entertainment that reads ‘The management of Forever Entertainment announces that it has signed a significant agreement to release The House of The Dead: Remake on the Google Stadia platform.’

This was several months before the remake was properly unveiled in April 2021, during one of Nintendo’s Indie World Showcases, but there was no mention of a Stadia release at the time.

For the time being, the only official info we have about the game is that it’s coming to Switch some time in 2022. Even though the first trailer didn’t come out until last year, Forever Entertainment confirmed its existence in late 2019, adding that it would be remaking House Of The Dead 2 as well.

The same studio remade another Sega rail shooter Panzer Dragoon and launched it in 2020, which did release for both Switch and Stadia, lending credence to the