Gamers love games — as do the individuals who make them.
GeForce NOW streams over 1,500 video games from the cloud, and with the Game Developers Conference in full swing this week, today’s GFN Thursday celebrates all issues games: the tech behind them, the tools that convey them to the cloud, the ways to play them and the model new ones being added to the library this week.
Developers use a host of NVIDIA assets to ship the most effective in PC cloud gaming experiences. CD PROJEKT RED, considered one of many builders to faucet into these sources, just lately introduced a new update coming to Cyberpunk 2077 on April 11 — including a new technology preview for Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode that allows full ray tracing on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs and RTX 4080 SuperPODs.
RTX 4080 performance lights up Sofia, Bulgaria.
In addition, members in and around Sofia, Bulgaria, can now experience the best of GeForce NOW Ultimate cloud gaming. It’s the latest metropolis to roll out RTX 4080 gaming rigs to GeForce NOW servers around the globe.
Plus, with five new video games becoming a member of the cloud this week, and an upcoming marvel-ous reward, GeForce NOW members can look forward to a busy weekend of streaming goodness.
Developers, Mount Up!
GDC presents the perfect time to spotlight GeForce NOW tools that enable builders to seamlessly bring their video games to the cloud. NVIDIA tools, software program growth kits (SDKs) and companion engines together allow the manufacturing of beautiful real-time content material that makes use of AI and ray tracing. And bringing these video games to billions of non-PC gadgets is as simple as checking an opt-in box.
GeForce NOW faucets into present recreation stores, allowing sport builders to reap the benefits of a quickly rising viewers without the trouble of creating for an additional platform. This means zero port work to bring video games to the cloud. Users don’t have to buy video games for another platform and might play them on many of the gadgets they already own.
Developers who want to do more have access to the GeForce NOW Developer Platform — an SDK and toolset empowering integration of, interplay with and testing on the NVIDIA cloud gaming service. It allows developers to reinforce their video games to run extra seamlessly, add cloud gaming into their stores and launchers, and let users connect their accounts and libraries to GeForce NOW.
The SDK is a set of APIs, runtimes, samples and documentation that permits video games to question for cloud execution and enable virtual touchscreens; launchers to set off cloud streaming of a specified recreation; and GeForce NOW and writer backends to facilitate account linking and sport library ownership syncing, already obtainable for Steam and Ubisoft video games.
Content developers have a slew of opportunities to convey their digital worlds and interactive experiences to customers in distinctive ways, powered by the cloud.
Metaverse services firm Improbable will use NVIDIA cloud gaming infrastructure for an interactive, stay, invite-only expertise that can accommodate as a lot as 10,000 guests. Other recent developer events included the DAF Trucks digital expertise, where potential prospects took the latest DAF truck for a take a look at drive in a simulated world, with PixelMob’s Euro Truck Simulator 2 offering the digital playground.
Furthermore, CD PROJEKT RED will be delivering full ray tracing, aka path tracing, to Cyberpunk 2077. Such results had been beforehand only possible for film and TV. With the power of a GeForce RTX 4080 gaming rig in the cloud, Ultimate members will be able to stream the new technology preview for the Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode coming to Cyberpunk 2077 throughout devices — even Macs — irrespective of the game’s system requirements.
Get Ready for a Marvel-ous Week
GeForce NOW Premium members can get this Marvel-ous reward for free first.
GeForce NOW Ultimate members have been enjoying Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ ultra-smooth, cinematic sport play due to DLSS 3 know-how assist on high of RTX-powered ray tracing, which together allow graphics breakthroughs.
Now, members can struggle among the legends with Captain Marvel’s Medieval Marvel suit in a free reward, which can turn into available at the finish of the month — first to Premium members who’re opted into GeForce NOW rewards. This reward is only out there till May 6, so upgrade to an Ultimate or Priority membership today and opt into rewards to get first access.
Next, on to the five new video games hitting GeForce NOW week for a contented weekend:
And with that, we’ve obtained a question to finish this GFN Thursday:
You’ve obtained free hire for a year to stay in a video game metropolis of your alternative, which one are you choosing? 🤔
— 🌩️ NVIDIA GeForce NOW (@NVIDIAGFN) March 22, 2023
