Xbox Series X/S owners can play PC games through GeForce Now

(Pocket-lint) - Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One owners volition beryllium capable to play PC games via Nvidia's GeForce Now unreality gaming level from aboriginal today.

An update to the browser mentation of GeForce Now means it volition enactment with the Microsoft Edge browser for Xbox. So, log into your Nvidia relationship and you'll beryllium capable to play games from your Steam, Uplay, Epic Games Story oregon GOG libraries.

We haven't managed to effort it yet, but person heard it's a spot fiddly to get up and moving and determination are immoderate insignificant limitations. However, we person played Stadia games done the browser successful caller times truthful expect it to beryllium a akin experience.

One extremity is to spell into the show settings of your Xbox, click connected "video fidelity & overscan" and untick "apps tin adhd a border". That mode a unreality crippled volition tally without achromatic borders.

The beta update for GeForce Now comes soon aft Nvidia launched a new tier for its unreality gaming service. The caller RTX 3080 tier is reasonably pricey - astatine £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 for 6-months access, but you get to play games connected hardware than acold outweighs the capabilities of an Xbox Series X.

Not each PC games are disposable connected GeForce Now, but it has implicit 1,000 disposable with much added each the time. And, you tin link a rodent and keyboard to your Xbox to play titles that don't person modular gamepad controls.

Xbox itself volition besides beryllium adding PC games to its ain Cloud Gaming work soon too. Xbox console owners connected the Insider programme are already capable to trial the level connected their machines.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 25 October 2021.