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GFN Thursday: 23 Games on GeForce NOW in April

GFN Thursday: 23 Games on GeForce NOW in April

It’s another rewarding GFN Thursday, with 23 new games for April on top of 11 joining the cloud this week and a new Marvel’s Midnight Suns reward now available first for GeForce NOW Premium members.

Newark RT 4080 SuperPOD GeForce NOW
There are dozens of us…dozens!

Newark, N.J., is next to complete its upgrade to RTX 4080 SuperPODs, making it the 12th region worldwide to bring new performance to Ultimate members.

GeForce NOW on SHIELD TV is being updated for a more consistent experience across Android and TV devices. Update 6.00 has begun rolling out to SHIELD TV owners this week.

Plus, work is underway to bring the initial batch of Xbox first-party games and features to GeForce NOW.

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

GeForce NOW and Microsoft

Last month, we announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring Xbox Game Studios PC games to the GeForce NOW library, including titles from Bethesda, Mojang Studios and Activision, pending closure of Microsoft’s acquisition. It’s a shared commitment to giving gamers more choice and enabling PC gamers to play their favorite games anywhere.

Since then the teams at both companies have been collaborating on delivering a best-in-class cloud gaming experience that PC gamers have come to expect, delivering a seamless experience across any device, whether playing locally or in the cloud.

We’re making progress, and in future GFN Thursdays we will provide an update on onboarding of individual titles from Microsoft’s incredibly rich catalog of first-party PC games. Stay tuned to GFN Thursday updates for the latest.

Medieval Marvel

Marvels Midnight Suns Reward on GeForce NOW
Fight among the legends in Captain Marvel’s Medieval Marvel suit.

Starting today, Premium GeForce NOW members can claim their marvel-ous new reward. Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the tactical role-playing game from the creators of XCOM, has been praised for its immersive game play and cutting-edge visuals with support for DLSS 3 technology on top of RTX-powered ray tracing.

With the game’s first downloadable content, called The Good, The Bad, and The Undead, fans were thrilled to welcome Deadpool to the roster. This week, members can get their free reward to secure Captain Marvel’s Medieval Marvel suit.

Ultimate and Priority members can visit the GeForce NOW Rewards portal today and update the settings to start receiving special offers and in-game goodies. Better hurry, as this reward is available on a first-come, first-served basis only through Saturday, May 6.

April is FOOL of Games

Have a Nice Death on GeForce NOW
Death Inc. opens a new branch in the cloud.

No joke, kick the weekend off right by streaming Have a Nice Death. Restore order in this darkly charming 2D action game from Gearbox while playing as an overworked Death whose employees at Death Inc. have run rampant as caretakers of souls. Hack and slash through numerous minions and bosses in each department at the company, using unique weapons and spells.

This leads the 11 new games joining the cloud this week:

  • 9 Years of Shadows (New release on Steam)
  • Terra Nil (New release on Steam, March 28)
  • Gripper (New release on Steam, March 29)
  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds (New release on Steam, March 29)
  • DREDGE (New release on Steam, March 30)
  • Ravenbound (New release on Steam, March 30)
  • The Great War: Western Front (New release on Steam, March 30)
  • Troublemaker (New release on Steam, March 31)
  • Have a Nice Death (Steam)
  • Tower of Fantasy (Steam)
  • Tunche (Free on Epic Games Store)

Plus, look forward to the rest of April:

  • Meet Your Maker (New release on Steam, April 4)
  • Road 96: Mile 0 (New release on Steam, April 4)
  • TerraScape (New release on Steam, April 5)
  • Curse of the Sea Rats (New release on Steam, April 6)
  • Ravenswatch (New release on Steam, April 6)
  • Supplice (New release on Steam, April 6)
  • DE-EXIT – Eternal Matters (New release on Steam, April 14)
  • Survival: Fountain of Youth (New release on Steam, April 19)
  • Tin Hearts (New release on Steam, April 20)
  • Dead Island 2 (New Release on Epic Games Store, April 21)
  • Afterimage (New release on Steam, April 25)
  • Roots of Pacha (New release on Steam, April 25)
  • Bramble: The Mountain King (New release on Steam, April 27)
  • 11-11 Memories Retold (Steam)
  • canVERSE (Steam)
  • Teardown (Steam)
  • Get Even (Steam)
  • Little Nightmares (Steam)
  • Little Nightmares II (Steam)
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (Steam)
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope (Steam)
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (Steam)
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me (Steam)

More March Madness

On top of the 19 games announced in March, nine extra ones joined the GeForce NOW library this month, including this week’s additions 9 Years of Shadows, Terra Nil, Gripper, Troublemaker, Have a Nice Death, Tunche, as well as:

System Shock didn’t make it in March due to a shift in its release date, nor did Chess Ultra due to a technical issue.

With so many titles streaming from the cloud, what game will you play next? Let us know in the comments below, on Twitter or on Facebook.

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GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW RTX 4080 Rollout

GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW RTX 4080 Rollout

The Ultimate update begins currently: GeForce NOW RTX 4080 SuperPODs are now rolling out, bringing a new level of significant-overall performance gaming to the cloud.

Best users will start to see RTX 4080 performance in their area quickly, and experience titles like  Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and more at best top quality. New characteristics are also offered now for Final customers streaming from RTX 3080 servers, and customers will be in a position to check GFN Thursday every single 7 days for availability updates in their locations.

As well as, get completely ready for 10 extra supported video games in the GeForce NOW library.

This Cloud Has an ‘Ultimate’ Lining

The GeForce NOW Best membership brings new functions and NVIDIA RTX technologies to the cloud for the 1st time, created achievable by the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture.

Supreme associates get 3 key streaming upgrades. The new RTX 4080 SuperPODs are able of rendering and streaming at up to 240 frames for every second. When paired with NVIDIA Reflex, it tends to make just about every moment of the action experience as if it’s on a desktop Pc. And 4K gaming goes beyond quickly with an enhance to 120 fps, with aid for DLSS 3 and RTX ON. Plus, for the first time, ultrawide resolutions are supported, providing members a broader position of look at, at up to 3,840 x 1,600 resolution and 120 fps.

Ultimate Upgrade GeForce NOW
Coming to a zone in close proximity to you.

Greatest members in and around San Jose, Los Angeles, Dallas and Frankfurt, Germany, will be the very first to expertise the ability of these RTX 4080 SuperPODs, setting up right now. Just about every 7 days, GFN Thursday will spotlight the latest metropolitan areas with upgraded servers, so make positive to examine back again every single week to see which towns light-weight up upcoming on the map.

Even greater: Beginning nowadays, Greatest customers streaming on RTX 3080 servers can acquire benefit of ultrawide resolutions and significant dynamic assortment on the GeForce NOW Computer system and macOS applications. Master additional about supported resolutions and frame costs. Make sure you have the app v2..47.125 or later on, and restart the app to see the new Ultimate features.

Really do not allow this cloud pass you by — check it out and indication up. Get the Ultimate improve without shelling out the supreme cost — this greatest-performance membership tier is only $19.99 per thirty day period or $99.99 for six months.

Recreation Linked

Genshin Impact on GeForce NOW
The new yr in Teyvat strategies in ‘The Exquisite Evening Chimes’ update.

Celebrate the new year in Genshin Effect version 3.4, out there this week. Gamers can examine Sumeru’s new sandstorm-ravaged desert with their favourite characters — and GeForce NOW users can enjoy on the go with cellular touch controls.

Additionally, 10 new video games will be supported in the cloud this week:

Make this the final weekend by taking part in these titles or any of the other 1,500 games in the GeForce NOW library. What video game will you stream initial on your Supreme membership? Allow us know in the remarks or on Twitter.

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GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW DLSS 3 Updates

GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW DLSS 3 Updates

GeForce NOW RTX 4080 SuperPODs are rolling out now, bringing RTX 4080-class performance and options to Greatest members — including aid for NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture technologies like NVIDIA DLSS 3. 

This GFN Thursday brings updates to some of GeForce NOW’s hottest online games that take benefit of these amazing systems, all from the cloud.

Plus, RTX 4080 SuperPOD upgrades are nearly finished in the London data heart, increasing the quantity of regions where by Greatest customers can working experience the most strong cloud gaming technological innovation on the world. Appear for updates on Twitter after the enhance is finish and be positive to examine back just about every week to see which metropolitan areas gentle up next on the map.

Members can also look for 6 more supported online games in the GeForce NOW library this 7 days. 

AI-Run Performance

NVIDIA DLSS has revolutionized graphics rendering, utilizing AI and GeForce RTX Tensor Cores to increase frame rates whilst delivering crisp, significant-high-quality photos that rival native resolution.

Driven by new hardware abilities of the Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 generates completely new higher-high quality frames, relatively than just pixels. It combines DLSS Tremendous Resolution know-how and DLSS Frame Generation to reconstruct 7-eighths of the displayed pixels, accelerating functionality.

DLSS 3 online games are backwards suitable with DLSS 2 technology — when builders integrate DLSS 3, DLSS 2, aka DLSS Super Resolution, is supported by default. In addition, integrations of DLSS 3 consist of NVIDIA Reflex, lessening procedure latency for all GeForce RTX consumers and generating games additional responsive.

Help for DLSS 3 is growing, and before long GeForce NOW Greatest associates can experience this technological innovation in new updates to HITMAN Earth of Assassination and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

A Whole New ‘World of Assassination’

The critically acclaimed HITMAN 3 from IOI transforms into HITMAN Planet of Assassination, an upgrade that involves written content from HITMAN 1, HITMAN 2 and HITMAN 3. With DLSS 3 aid, streaming from the cloud in 4K seems to be better than ever, even with ray tracing and options cranked to the max.

HITMAN World of Assassination on GeForce NOW
Loss of life waits for no just one, particularly when streaming from the cloud.

Grow to be famous assassin Agent 47 and use creativeness and improvisation to execute ingenious, spectacular eliminations in sprawling sandbox areas all all around the globe. Adhere to the shadows to stalk and eradicate targets — or take them out in plain sight.

Along with DLSS 3 guidance, Supreme associates can love ray-traced opaque reflections and shadows in the environment of HITMAN as they discover open up-planet missions with various strategies to triumph. 

Deadpool Does DLSS 3

Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ initial downloadable material, The Good, The Poor, and the Undead, provides Deadpool to the crew roster, alongside with new tale missions, new enemies and additional. Insert in DLSS 3 support coming before long, and Final associates have a ton to glimpse forward to.

Marvel Midnight Suns on GeForce NOW
Really do not miss out on Deadpool in ‘Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ to start with DLC.

Released past month to essential acclaim, VGC awarded Marvel’s Midnight Suns with a 5-out-of-5 score, calling it a “modern strategy common.” Laptop Gamer claimed it was “completely brilliant” and scored it an 88 out of 100, and Rock Paper Shotgun named it “one of the finest superhero game titles comprehensive prevent.”

Supreme customers can check out the abbey grounds and get to know the Merc with a Mouth at up to 4K resolutions and 120 frames for each second, or immerse them selves in their mission with ultrawide resolutions at up to 3840 x 1600 at 120 frames per next — in addition numerous other well-liked formats like 3440 x 1440 and 2560 x 1080. 

GeForce NOW customers can also consider their video games and help save details with them where ever they go, from underpowered PCs to Macs, Samsung and LG TVs, mobile devices and Chromebooks.

Match On

Get completely ready to sport: 6 much more video games be part of the supported listing in the GeForce NOW library this week:

  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (New launch on Steam, Jan. 23)
  • Oddballers (New launch on Ubisoft Hook up, Jan. 26)
  • Check out Dogs: Legion (New release on Steam, Jan. 26)
  • Cygnus Enterprises (Steam)
  • Rain Earth (Steam)
  • The Eternal Cylinder (Steam)

There is only 1 issue remaining to kick off a weekend whole of gaming in the cloud. Allow us know on Twitter or in the comments down below.

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GFN Thursday: ‘The Witcher 3′ Update Coming Soon

GFN Thursday: ‘The Witcher 3′ Update Coming Soon

It’s a wild GFN Thursday — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt upcoming-gen update will stream on GeForce NOW working day and day, beginning following 7 days. Currently, users can stream new seasons of Fortnite and Genshin Effects, along with 8 new games signing up for the library.

In addition, the latest GeForce NOW application is rolling out this 7 days with assist for syncing members’ Ubisoft Link library of video games, which assists them get into their preferred Ubisoft game titles even quicker.

Furthermore, gamers throughout the U.K., Netherlands and Poland have the to start with possibility to choose up the new HP Chromebook x360, 13.3 inches, constructed for severe multitasking with an adaptive 360-diploma design and style and good for cloud gaming. Each individual Chromebook acquire arrives with a 1-month GeForce NOW Precedence membership for totally free.

Triss the Year

The Witcher 3 on GeForce NOW
“Hmm”

CD PROJEKT Pink releases the next-gen update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Entire Version on Wednesday, Dec. 14. The update is cost-free for anybody who owns the match on Steam, Epic Video games, or GOG.com, and GeForce NOW members can consider gain of upgraded visuals across virtually all of their devices.

The following-gen update provides vastly improved visuals, a new photo mode, and articles influenced by Netflix’s The Witcher collection. It also adds RTX World wide Illumination, as properly as ray-traced ambient occlusion, shadows and reflections that add cinematic detail to the activity.

Participate in as Geralt of Rivia on a quest to monitor down his adopted daughter Ciri, the Little one of Prophecy — and the carrier of the impressive Elder Blood — across all your devices devoid of needing to hold out for the update to obtain and put in. GeForce NOW RTX 3080 and Priority members can perform with RTX ON and NVIDIA DLSS to examine the gorgeous open planet of The Witcher at high body fees on just about any gadget — from Macs to mobile devices and more.

Get in Sync

The GeForce NOW 2..47 application update begins rolling out this week with aid for syncing Ubisoft Link accounts with your GeForce NOW library.

Ubisoft Connect Library GeForce NOW
The 2..47 application update provides Ubisoft Link library syncing.

Users will be in a position to get to their Ubisoft games a lot quicker and less complicated with this new sport-library sync for Ubisoft Link. The moment synced, members will be routinely logged into their Ubisoft account across all equipment when streaming supported GeForce NOW video games purchased specifically from the Ubisoft or Epic Video games Store. These involve titles like Rainbow Six Siege and Significantly Cry 6.

The update also adds advancements to voice chat with Chromebook built-in mics, as effectively as bug fixes. Glance for the update to strike Computer, Mac and browser customers in the coming days.

‘Tis the Seasons

Fortnite Chapter 4 on GeForce NOW
Fortnite Chapter 4 is available to enjoy in the cloud.

The action by no means stops on GeForce NOW. This 7 days brings updates to some of the best titles streaming from the cloud, and 8 new game titles to enjoy.

Associates can leap into Fortnite Chapter 4, now available on GeForce NOW. The chapter attributes a new island, freshly forged weapons, a new realm and new strategies to get close to, no matter whether using a grime bike or rolling close to in a snowball. A new forged of combatants is also offered, including Geralt of Rivia himself.

Genshin Impact’s Version 3.3 “All Senses Clear, All Existence Void” is also readily available to stream on GeForce NOW, bringing a new period of functions, a new card sport termed the Genius Invokation TCG, and two potent allies — the Wanderer and Faruzan — for much more stories, fun and problems.

Here’s the full record of online games coming to the cloud this week:

A GeForce NOW compensated membership would make a terrific existing for the gamer in your lifestyle, so give the gift of gaming with a GeForce NOW reward card. It is the ideal stocking stuffer or past-moment address for your self or a buddy.

Ultimately, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Version on the way, we have to have to know – Which Geralt are you nowadays? Inform us on Twitter or in the feedback down below.