Stadia launches free tier including two-month trial of Stadia Pro

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  The Stadia main menu interface, as seen in a Chrome browser (it looks largely similar on mobile and Chromecast).

Nearly five months after its paid launch, Google's Stadia streaming-games service is finally rolling out a (relatively) simple way to try it out for free. Curious new users no longer have to pay $130 upfront or a $10 monthly fee (or rely on an invite code from a Premiere Edition subscriber) to try the service.

Google announced today that it would be rolling out free access to Stadia across 14 countries over the next 48 hours. Anyone with a Gmail address should soon be able to sign up for Stadia at its website or through the mobile app on Android or iOS. Despite this morning's announcement, that free offer wasn't available via the website in the United States as of press time, though Android users are reporting the ability to sign up through the app.

Those new signups will include two free months of Stadia Pro, which includes instant streaming access to nine games:

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