Microsoft is bringing PC Game Pass to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service

Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service. Sarah Bond, head of Xbox Creator Experience, announced the move at a private Xbox media briefing in Los Angeles on Sunday. “You’ll be able to play your PC Game Pass catalog on all devices supported by Nvidia GeForce Now,” Bond said.

“This will enable the PC Game Pass catalog to be played on any device that streams to GeForce Now, such as low spec PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, mobile devices, TVs and more, and we look forward to rolling this out over the coming months.” Will out ,” says Joe Skabels, editor-in-chief of Xbox Wire, in a blog post,

GeForce Now members will be able to “select PC games from the library,” so it doesn’t look like this will be the full catalog. Either way, it’s a big deal for cloud gaming, allowing PC Game Pass subscribers to access Nvidia’s improved game streaming service with RTX 4080 levels of performance. In our own testing we found that the RTX 4080 tier of GeForce Now was far superior to Microsoft’s own Xbox cloud gaming offering for performance and latency.

It also means that Microsoft’s promised Microsoft Store support for GeForce Now extends beyond just your purchases to PC Game Pass subscriptions. Nvidia has previously said that support for the Microsoft Store on GeForce Now will “be available in the coming months,” so we might not have to wait too long to see PC Game Pass on GeForce Now.

All of this work is part of a new partnership between Microsoft and Nvidia that sees Xbox PC games coming to GeForce Now. Microsoft earlier this year inked a 10-year deal with Nvidia to license Xbox PC games to GeForce Now, as part of a broader effort to appease regulators over its proposed Activision Blizzard deal. The deal also includes access to Activision Blizzard titles if Microsoft’s proposed acquisition is approved by regulators.

UK regulators have blocked the deal over cloud competition concerns, despite Microsoft’s 10-year deals with several cloud gaming rivals. Now Microsoft is offering its PC Game Pass subscriptions on a rival cloud gaming service, in a surprise move that could help convince regulators over its proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition.