As part of its Gamescom 2023 announcements, NVIDIA revealed that Alan Wake II will be playable on its cloud streaming service GeForce NOW when it releases on October 27th.
GeForce NOW Ultimate users, who are equipped with an RTX 4080-class GPU, will also be able to enjoy it with full support for the newly announced DLSS 3.5 as well as path tracing. The same will apply to Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty when it launches on September 26th, though that’s not really a surprise since the base game was already supported on the cloud service.
NVIDIA also said Starbreeze’s PAYDAY 3 would be added to the GeForce NOW library on day one (September 21st). PAYDAY 3 is set to support DLSS 3, too, so again, Ultimate subscribers will get to enable Frame Generation to reach even higher frame rates.
That’s not the entirety of the Gamescom 2023 GFN announcements, as NVIDIA also said Party Animals (due on September 20th) would be added to the cloud streaming library. Moreover, following NVIDIA’s partnership with Microsoft, the first Xbox Game Pass titles will land on GeForce NOW this Thursday. The initial wave includes over ten XGP games, such as Arkane’s Deathloop, Obsidian’s Grounded, and id’s DOOM (2016), not to mention a few major third-party games like No Man’s Sky from Hello Games and Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord from TaleWorlds Entertainment.
More will be added in the near future. During a recent press briefing, I asked whether that would include Bethesda’s Starfield, and I was told to ‘stay tuned’. PAYDAY 3 will also be available through Game Pass, so it’s a potential candidate.
Last but not least, NVIDIA said it has now completed the rollout of its GeForce RTX 4080 SuperPODs (seven months after it began), improving the availability of the GeForce NOW Ultimate tier across North America and Europe.
In other NVIDIA Gamescom 2023 news, Half-Life 2 RTX is coming from a team of modders who will be using RTX Remix to take Valve’s masterpiece to a new level of visual fidelity.
