Activision Blizzard Just Pulled All Its Games From Nvidia GeForce Now

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Activision Blizzard Just Pulled All Its Games From Nvidia GeForce Now

Activision Blizzard just yanked all their games off of Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud-based gaming service. via Nvidia Geforce Now Activision Blizzard just yanked all their games off of Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud-based gaming service. About a week ago, Nvidia launched GeForce Now. It takes on Google Stadia in the emerging cloud-based gaming market that essentially allows you to play high-end games on low-end systems through the power of the internet. GeForce Now works in much the same way as Google Stadia in that the game is run on a server thousands of miles away. You interact with the game in much the same way as a remote desktop. The only difference is that Google Stadia will only let you play games that you own on their service, while GeForce now will let you play games that you already own on different platforms. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY Already own on Steam? Then you can play it on GeForce Now. The same goes for Dauntless, , Paladins, , and a host of other titles. However, GeForce Now doesn’t let you play every game that you might already own. Games from Capcom, EA, Konami, Remedy, Rockstar, and Square Enix aren’t available on GeForce Now, and you can add Activision Blizzard to that list too. In a , Nvidia announced that Activision Blizzard had pulled their games from GeForce Now. "Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the service. While unfortunate, we hope to work together with Activision Blizzard to reenable these games and more in the future." via Nvidia Geforce Now This didn’t go over well with GeForce Now users, some of whom purchased Blizzard games specifically to play on the service. Activision Blizzard is also refusing to provide refunds to those players if they had already owned the game for more than 48 hours. Activision Blizzard has provided no explanation for their sudden about-face on GeForce Now, but it likely has something to do with the . Although that deal was for esports streaming, we can totally see negotiations expanding to include all streaming services, which means we might see and appear as Google Stadia games. The cloud-based gaming wars appear to be on. Source: ,