As stated in my bio, I'm a pretty big gaming fan. These days, I split my gaming time between remote cloud (PC) gaming, and my Nintendo Switch. For cloud gaming, I connect to a data centre that runs the game I want to play and I stream the game to a derelict Mac that can't run anything modern BUT has a 27" screen. I use a cheap gaming mouse, and a standard keyboard, and I'm good to go. It's great because I have a decent gaming collection thanks to the free Epic games giveaways, and access to my Steam account with all the games I've bought since the mid 2000s.
That's a lot of games, plus the free-to-play options that are on GeForce Now (which is the client I use for cloud gaming).
Well, there's going to be a bunch more games, now that Microsoft and Nvidia have signed an agreement just yesterday bringing all the Microsoft game studio games to the platform. It's not all publishers that allow their games to be cloud-based, but Microsoft is now one of them and so I'll be able to play AAA games like Skyrim and even Call of Duty (and that's because Microsoft bought recently bought Activision-Blizzard).
Users of GeForce Now, such as myself, speculate that having a behemoth like Microsoft partner with Nvidia means other publishers will now want their games to be on GeForce Now. You still need to buy the game to play it through cloud servers, so it would make sense for other publishers to want to cash in on gamers like me who don't plan to run modern games on expensive modern machines.
So yeah, I'm pretty excited that I'll have access to more games I enjoy! I just need to be careful with finding the right balance so that I don't spend my leisure hours only playing video games.
I -am- looking forward to playing badminton this weekend!
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