Nvidia’s GeForce Now could be getting an enormous improve subsequent month — and it’s additionally a part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Video games have teamed up for an early check of prompt recreation demos for Discord servers, which might theoretically allow you to instantly attempt a recreation with out shopping for it, downloading it, or signing up for an account.
“You’ll be able to merely click on a button that claims ‘attempt a recreation’ after which join your Epic Video games account and instantly leap in and and be part of the motion, and also you’ll be enjoying Fortnite in seconds with none downloads or installs,” says Nvidia product advertising director Andrew Worry.
Right here’s a screenshot of what it would appear to be, from an Nvidia video, which additionally exhibits the Fortnite demo is at the moment restricted to a 30-minute free trial:
It doesn’t sound fully frictionless if you happen to nonetheless want an Epic Video games account to play, and it’s not clear if Nvidia, Epic and Discord will supply the demo exterior of Gamescom simply but. Nvidia is looking it a “expertise announcement” relatively than a confirmed function, one which’ll hopefully see recreation publishers and builders attain out in the event that they’re all in favour of probably including it to their video games.
After Sony purchased Gaikai in 2012, it initially recommended it will supply prompt try-before-you-buy recreation demos on the PlayStation 4 too, however that by no means occurred. Years later, Gaikai’s founder advised me that publishers didn’t essentially need it.