gift or if you're just looking for something a little fun and new, cnet's senior managing editor dan ackerman has some new tech for the new year, and dan, it's great to see you >> great to be here. >> you come bearing good gifts, things that really caught your eye. >> if you didn't get what you want for christmas, the best thing to do is go out right after and get it for yourself. >> this is interesting this is a new service and a piece of hardware from google called stadia. they wanted to build a netflix for games, where you didn't need to have a console, like an xbox in your living room, you connect to the internet and play the game streaming they'll sell you this little controller to do it with and you can hook it up to your phone so you can play these console-style very high-end game on your phone. >> who makes the game? or can i play activision -- >> a lot of games from a lot of different publishers you buy the game as you normally would, but instead of buying a disc for your xbox, you're buying the streaming stadia version. >> that sounds like really bad news for the makers of game cons