Summary
The NvidiaGeForce Nowlibrary has expanded to encompass a handful of high-profile Activision Blizzard games, includingDiablo 4and multiple recentCall of Dutyentries. These additions are just the tip of the streaming platform’s late winter content iceberg, withGeForce NOWalready confirming nearly two dozen new arrivals for March 2024.
As part of its efforts to get the Activision Blizzard acquisition over the finish line, Microsoft signed content licensing agreements with a number of streaming platforms over the course of 2023. This was meant to convince European regulators that the company wouldn’t attempt to monopolize the nascent cloud gaming market by withholding titles likeCall of Dutyfrom Xbox Cloud Gaming rivals. One of those agreements was made with Nvidia, which later evenwent to bat for Microsoft to defend its Activision Blizzard acquisition.
Less than a year later, this collaboration started yielding some user-facing results. Specifically, a February 29updateto GeForce NOW saw the platform incorporate support for select Battle.net titles. The first wave of those additions comprisesDiablo 4,Hearthstone, andOverwatch 2. The Call of Duty HQ app is also part of the package, allowingGeForce NOW usersto streamModern Warfare 2,Modern Warfare 3, andWarzone.
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Microsoft hence started coming good on itspledge to bringCall of Dutygames to GeForce Now. The Redmond-based tech giant previously committed to keeping the hit FPS franchise on Nvidia’s streaming service for a decade. The addition of Battle.net integration brings the total number of GeForce NOW supported platforms up to six, joining the likes of Steam, GOG, and Ubisoft Connect. Nvidia has yet to confirm that more Battle.net titles will be added to its service in due time, although its track record with storefront integration suggests that is a plausible scenario.
GeForce NOW Casts Vote of Confidence for Battle.net
Looking at the slightly bigger picture, this development is a fairly strong indicator thatBattle.net won’t be facing the reaper anytime soon. Some industry watchers previously predicted that Microsoft might opt to shutter the launcher in favor of concentrating its content library onto its main storefront following the Activision Blizzard acquisition, which was completed in mid-October 2023. But Nvidia going through the trouble of making Battle.net work with its cloud gaming platform implies Microsoft might have provided it with assurances that Battle.net isn’t going anywhere for now.
The latest GeForce NOW update also introduced support forStar Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, the Xbox Game Pass version ofSpace Engineers,Fort Solis, andWelcome to ParadiZe. At least 22 more titles will be added to Nvidia’s streaming service over the course of March.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)
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The war has changed. Call of Duty returns with an all-new campaign, modernized versions of classic Multiplayer maps and an open-world PvE Zombies experience. The campaign, a direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, sees Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against ultranationalist war criminal Vladimir Makarov as he extends his grasp across the world. In Multiplayer, the 16 maps that launched with Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 return with upgraded graphics, new modes and innovative gameplay features. In Modern Warfare Zombies, team up with other squads for the first time ever as you work together to survive in the largest Zombies map yet
