60 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020
GEFORCE NOW
to fave.co/2uFG6Dn), then pay £8.99 per month for
a Stadia Pro subscription. That Pro subscription gives
you access to Destiny 2 and a couple of other games,
but you’ll need to pay full price to stream any other
titles in Stadia’s paltry library. Even if you own a game
onanotherservice,youcan’tbringit overtoStadia.
It’slikea locked-down console in the cloud.
GeForce Now, on the other hand, is essentially a
powerful gaming PC on Nvidia’s servers that you can
play anywhere.
How GeForce Now works
Nvidia’s service doesn’t sell you any games. Instead,
GeForce Now taps into your existing game libraries
from Steam, Uplay, the Epic Games Store, and the like,
letting you play games you already own anywhere you
want by signing into the service you own it on. That
means the free tier can be truly free, unlike Stadia’s
eventual ‘free’ version. Nvidia’s service supports
numerous popular free-to-play PC games like Fortnite,
League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,
Dota2,ApexLegends,Warframe,PathofExile,and
thefree Destiny 2 base game – the crown jewel of
Stadia’s launch line-up.
GeForce Now officially supports around 400 games,
which you can find via the service’s search bar. That
tally includes most of the more popular titles being
played today, and Nvidia says it adds four or five new
games every week or so. PUBG, Witcher 3, Skyrim,
Borderlands 3, XCOM 2, and many, many more triple-A
games work with GeForce Now, as do indie gems such
as Battletech, Stardew Valley, and Disco Elysium.
