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Nvidia starts new Windows beta for GeForce Now cloud-gaming service

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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If you’ve got an underpowered Windows PC, you’ll soon be able to use it to play some of the most demanding games available today. Nvidia will let you do that using the cloud-gaming technology of GeForce Now, which is launching an expanded free beta test soon.

Phil Eisler, head of GeForce Now at Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia, said in a blog post that users will be able to access high-performance GeForce GTX graphics processing units (GPUs) in cloud-connected data centers through GeForce Now. The processing takes place in the cloud, and the data center sends video to the display on your computer. It happens so fast that it appears that your own PC is doing the processing locally, but in fact, that processing is happening in the cloud.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.