NVIDIA Wants Cloud Gaming Everywhere
GeForce NOW’s Blackwell Push Brings RTX-Class Power to Anything With a Screen.
NVIDIA is closing in on one of its biggest cloud upgrades yet. The company says its Blackwell RTX overhaul for GeForce NOW Ultimate is nearly complete, with Stockholm set to become the final region to receive RTX 5080-class servers.
Once finished, the rollout turns Ultimate into a roaming high-end gaming rig that streams at up to 5K and 120 frames per second or hits 360 frames per second at 1080p, complete with high-dynamic-range support, ultrawide displays, racing wheels and handheld gaming at up to 90 frames per second.
Partners are already leaning into the pitch. Sean Haran, head of partnerships and licensing at 2K, said that top-tier streaming is “truly everywhere” now, and argued that players can enjoy Borderlands 4 at full fidelity without owning the latest hardware. NVIDIA is backing that message with more than 4,000 games accessible through its Install-to-Play system.
The company is pairing the upgrade with fresh engagement hooks. A GeForce NOW Community Video Contest invites players to submit gameplay clips through the Blackwell upgrade page. All entrants receive two Ultimate day passes, and the top ten submissions earn a full year of Ultimate membership.
Ultimate subscribers also pick up exclusive in-game rewards, including the ECHO-4 drone skin in Borderlands 4. Guild Wars 2 players get the Bloody Prince Outfit tied to the “Visions of Eternity” expansion, redeemed through the GeForce NOW account portal.
The week’s content drop is led by Capcom’s Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, which includes sixteen episodes across three games in the series. Other new titles span SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide, Demonschool, Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault, Monsters Are Coming! Rock and Road, Long Drive North, Prologue: Go Wayback!, The Crew Motorfest, Sacred 2 Remaster and Star Wars Outlaws, which is now flagged as RTX 5080-ready.
NVIDIA is also widening the funnel with a GeForce NOW Chromebook Fast Pass. Chromebook and Chromebook+ owners, along with new and existing GeForce NOW free users, receive twelve months of priority access to more than two thousand Ready-to-Play PC titles streamed at 1080p and 60 frames per second, ad-free and with no queue times. Launch dates listed on GFN Thursdays reflect when games release, with new additions landing on the service the following week.
GeForce NOW continues to serve as NVIDIA’s cloud gaming backbone, streaming PC games to laptops, Macs, phones, Chromebooks and handhelds with no downloads required.
