GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW Gamescom 2026

NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s subsequent for GeForce NOW, with new methods to play, extra supported units and platforms, and much more large PC video games headed to the cloud.

New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 know-how controls give members extra methods to fine-tune gameplay, whereas expanded help for brand spanking new Steam units, GOG single sign-on, Firefox browser help and extra Amazon Hearth TV units proceed broadening the place and the way GeForce RTX-powered PC gaming may be loved.

Gamescom can be bringing a blockbuster lineup of PC video games to GeForce NOW. CONTROL Resonant, Gears of Warfare: E-Day, Onimusha: Method of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker and STAR WARS Zero Firm are all coming to the cloud at launch. 

For a restricted time, members may get CONTROL Resonant with the acquisition of a 12-month GeForce NOW Ultimate membership.

The Gamescom extras don’t cease there. To have a good time, GeForce NOW is gifting away greater than 40 prizes in our Community Giveaway — together with gaming {hardware} and GeForce NOW Final memberships.

There’s much more enjoyable to come back. Take a look at the checklist of 13 video games becoming a member of the GeForce NOW library this week.

Subsequent-Degree Cloud Gaming

This fall, GeForce NOW is introducing new NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 controls within the cloud, giving Final members extra selection over how supported video games look and carry out, even with out the newest {hardware}. Powered by NVIDIA RTX graphics, every management gives one thing completely different: DLSS Tremendous Decision sharpens picture high quality, whereas Dynamic Body Era delivers decrease latency and stutter for smoother streaming, and Ray Reconstruction enhances ray-traced visuals. Collectively, these applied sciences make it simpler to tune supported video games for picture high quality, responsiveness or a most well-liked steadiness between the 2. 

Keep tuned to GFN Thursdays for particulars about finest practices for enabling DLSS 4.5 overrides and the way Dynamic Body Era may also help Final members allow extra graphic settings whereas nonetheless getting clean streaming.

GeForce NOW can be including community-requested help for Steam Machine with Steam Controller later this fall, and later for Home windows and macOS, delivering extra methods to play and making it even simpler for longtime Steam gamers to leap into the cloud utilizing acquainted {hardware}. The additions construct on present Steam Deck support and develop compatibility throughout the Steam ecosystem.

Launching GOG video games simply obtained even simpler. With GOG single sign-on now out there on GeForce NOW, members can securely hyperlink their account as soon as, robotically sync supported video games and launch them with out having to check in to GOG once more — all with a single click on.

With fewer steps between opening the app, skipping any downloads and leaping into gameplay, it’s one other manner GeForce NOW continues streamlining entry to PC gaming libraries, making it simpler to play the GOG library of video games on TV platforms since players are robotically logged into their GOG accounts.

Discover in style titles, like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, within the app within the devoted GOG row. Or search and filter for GOG video games, then leap into supported titles from virtually wherever — all streamed from the cloud. Examine again on GFN Thursdays for the newest video games becoming a member of the GeForce NOW library, together with newly supported video games streaming from GOG.

Plus, GeForce NOW is now formally supported on Firefox, increasing browser entry throughout all main Home windows browsers. Members can leap into supported PC video games instantly from Firefox with out downloading a devoted app. Final members can get pleasure from GeForce RTX-powered gaming at as much as 1440p and 120 frames per second.

Merely obtain the latest version of Firefox and go to play.geforcenow.com to get began. The cloud handles downloads, installs and updates, protecting native storage free whereas video games keep able to play within the cloud. 

GeForce NOW is increasing help to further Amazon Fire TV devices. GeForce NOW first launched on Hearth TV units earlier this yr, and can quickly develop to the Hearth TV Stick 4K Choose, a 4K streaming stick that’s able to recreation proper out of the field. Streaming from the cloud means supported PC video games are able to play utilizing a appropriate controller, making it simple to get pleasure from GeForce NOW on the most important display in the home with much more choices to play from the consolation of the sofa. 

And that’s not all of the awesomeness from Amazon. Later this yr, Hearth TV customers will be capable of buy GeForce NOW memberships instantly by Amazon, making a extra seamless path from machine setup to gameplay.

These new options will arrive alongside a few of the greatest video games coming to the cloud all year long.

Get Prepared for Launch

5 newly introduced and extremely anticipated video games are coming to GeForce NOW at launch: CONTROL Resonant, Gears of Warfare: E-Day, Onimusha: Method of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker and STAR WARS Zero Firm. 

Higher but, members can lock in certainly one of them early: For a restricted time, buy a 12-month GeForce NOW Final membership and obtain CONTROL Resonant at launch at no further price, and be first to expertise Faden’s subsequent chapter. The supply is on the market Tuesday, Aug. 25, by Sunday, Sept. 27.

Final members can stream the total lineup with GeForce RTX 5080-class efficiency within the cloud, together with NVIDIA DLSS 4, ray tracing, NVIDIA Reflex and Cinematic High quality Streaming applied sciences, with as much as 5K excessive dynamic vary on supported units. 

Whether or not diving into new worlds or returning to iconic franchises, GeForce NOW lets members skip costly {hardware} upgrades, huge installs and storage administration to allow them to leap straight into the motion the second every recreation launches. Right here’s a more in-depth have a look at what’s coming:

Discover a warped Manhattan on the point of paranatural annihilation in Treatment’s CONTROL Resonant. Harness Dylan Faden’s extraordinary powers to battle the Hiss, the Mildew and different reality-bending threats whereas trying to find his sister, Federal Bureau of CONTROL Director Jesse Faden.

Expertise the horror and brutality of Emergence Day within the Coalition’s Gears of Warfare: E-Day. Fourteen years earlier than the unique Gears of Warfare, be a part of Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago in a gripping origin-story marketing campaign because the Locust Horde first erupt from under, igniting a determined struggle for survival. Rally squads and struggle on in multiplayer with a reimagination of Gears’ iconic PvE mode, Horde Siege, or go face to face with a refined versus PvP.

Struggle throughout a twisted imaginative and prescient of Edo-period Kyoto in Capcom’s Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Wield the paranormal Oni Gauntlet, grasp intense swordplay and battle relentless demonic Genma beneath mysterious clouds of Malice.

Step into 14th-century Europe in Bandai Namco’s The Blood of Dawnwalker, the place conflict, plague and rising vampire powers have reshaped historical past. Play as Coen, a younger Dawnwalker torn between humanity and cursed power, and form his path whereas combating to avoid wasting his household.

Lead an elite squad behind enemy traces in STAR WARS Zero Firm, a single-player turn-based recreation set throughout the twilight of the Clone Wars. Command former Republic officer Hawks and Zero Firm by tactical battles and high-stakes missions the place technique, squad composition and participant decisions form the destiny of the galaxy.

Extra Methods to Win

GeForce NOW is marking Gamescom with a group giveaway that includes greater than 40 prizes. Players can have an opportunity to attain a MacBook Neo, Steam Deck or Chromebook — every paired with a one-year GeForce NOW Final membership — together with Amazon Hearth TV Sticks and GeForce NOW Final memberships starting from one month to 1 yr.

Head over to the GeForce NOW group on Reddit for all of the giveaway particulars and tips on how to enter.

The Hunt Is On

Squad up and struggle for survival in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, streaming on GeForce NOW this week at launch. Assemble a four-player fireteam of Colonial Marines and battle by swarms of Xenomorphs, lethal new threats and more and more determined encounters. With deeper squad mechanics, new and improved lessons, smarter enemies and expanded customization, each mission places teamwork — and nerves — to the take a look at.

Members may search for the next video games becoming a member of the cloud this week: