NVIDIA's GeForce NOW Library Loses All Activision Blizzard Games

GeForce Now, the cloud gaming service from NVIDIA, officially launched out of beta before this calendar month.

GeForce NOW allows gamers to play their ain PC games on low-terminate PC, Macs, and even Android devices. This is considered by many to exist an advantage in comparison to Google's Stadia, which is its ain platform with a relatively small library of games for the time being.

However, GeForce NOW does not back up games from all publishers. In fact, many big ones such as Capcom, Electronic Arts, Rockstar Games and Square Enix are missing, and yesterday the biggest Western publisher - Activision Blizzard - also joined this growing list.

NVIDIA itself announced the bad news on the GeForce At present forums.

Equally nosotros take GeForce Now to the adjacent step in its evolution, we've worked with publishers to onboard a robust catalog of your PC games. This ways continually adding new games, and on occasion, having to remove games – similar to other digital service providers.

Per their request, delight exist 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. In addition to the hundreds of games currently supported, nosotros have over i,500 games that developers take asked to exist on-boarded to the service. Look for weekly updates as to new games nosotros are adding.

Needless to say, this is a major blow to GeForce At present. Activision Blizzard owns several of the most popular games, from Call of Duty to Globe of Warcraft, Overwatch and Diablo Three, besides as hits like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Crash Bandicoot Due north. Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.

While the complimentary tier is certainly very appealing in theory as it allows infinite gameplay session (albeit limited to i-hr length each), gamers volition simply utilise GeForce NOW if they tin can play their favorite titles on the platform. NVIDIA seems to call back it could get Activision Blizzard to come back; we'll surely let yous know if that happens. Until and then, stay tuned.