GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW on Linux

Get able to recreation — the native GeForce NOW app for Linux PCs is now obtainable in beta, letting Linux desktops faucet instantly into GeForce RTX efficiency from the cloud.

Alongside the growth comes ten new video games, together with The Bard’s Story IV: Director’s Lower and The Bard’s Story Trilogy for a leveled-up gaming weekend.

And operators can squad up in Team Jade’s Delta Force when it deploys within the cloud on February 3, bringing high-stakes tactical motion to almost any system with no downloads required.

Linux Simply Obtained RTX

Gaming on Linux simply obtained a significant RTX improve.

Beginning with assist for Ubuntu 24.04 and later, the brand new app delivers a seamless native expertise that matches proper into Linux desktop workflows. It transforms suitable Linux techniques into high-performance GeForce RTX-powered rigs, streaming supported PC titles instantly from the cloud at as much as 5K decision and 120 frames per second, or 1080p at 360 fps.

This new desktop-focused app goes past the sooner Linux expertise that was tuned particularly for Steam Decks, which focused handheld-friendly resolutions and as much as 1200p at 90 fps. The beta Linux app is constructed for PCs and notebooks, providing an expertise just like the present GeForce NOW app on Home windows and macOS.

With GeForce NOW, rendering occurs within the cloud, so demanding titles run on a wider vary of gadgets. Expertise how RTX applied sciences — together with ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 4 and extra — convey video games to life with RTX 5080 efficiency from the cloud.

Linux PCs and gadgets be a part of the GeForce NOW native app household that additionally helps Home windows, macOS, Chromebooks, cellular gadgets, sensible TVs and extra — unlocking versatile, on-demand gaming anyplace.

Obtain the app at the moment.

For extra particulars, take a look at all information base articles on the GeForce NOW Linux beta app here.

A Story of the Cloud

Journey calls twice with two legendary journeys from inXile leisure filled with wit, marvel and some well-placed lute solos.

Sing loud, battle arduous and out-charm enemies.

Get able to sing, slash and swindle via the wild world of Caith in The Bard’s Story IV: Director’s Lower. This dungeon-crawling role-playing recreation serves up intelligent puzzles, tactical turn-based battles and a hearty serving to of bardic humor. Whether or not belting out battle tunes or charming foes into submission, players can take pleasure in an journey that’s by no means sounded this good.

The Bard's Tale Trilogy — *Relive the songs and chaos that began all of it.*

Plus, step again to the place the saga started with The Bard’s Story Trilogy. This remastered assortment revives the basic, old-school dungeon crawling and tongue-in-cheek attraction that began all of it — now with smoother gameplay and polished visuals. It’s nostalgia wrapped in pure fantasy enjoyable.

Sizzling off the Cloud

Cairn on GeForce NOW — *One mountain, numerous shut calls.*

Cairn is a survival-climbing journey from The Sport Bakers that pushes professional climber Aava up the unforgiving face of Mount Kami, a sheer large that nobody has ever managed to summit. Real looking climbing techniques, useful resource administration and route-planning flip every wall right into a tense, puzzle-like problem — mixing simulation element with atmospheric storytelling.

As well as, members can search for the next:

The Midnight Walkers (New launch on Steam, Jan. 28, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
Cairn (New launch on Steam, Jan. 29, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
Prototype (New launch on Ubisoft Join, Jan. 29)
Prototype 2 (New launch on Ubisoft Join, Jan. 29)
Warhammer 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 (New launch on Xbox, obtainable on Sport Cross, Jan. 29, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
Half Sword (New launch on Steam, Jan.30, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
Vampires: Bloodlord Rising (New launch on Steam, Jan. 30, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
The Bard’s Story Trilogy (Steam and Xbox, obtainable on Sport Cross)
The Bard’s Story IV: Director’s Lower (Steam and Xbox, obtainable on Sport Cross)
Whole Warfare: Three Kingdoms (Epic Games Store)