Nvidia’s GeForce Now could be getting a giant 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 take a look at of prompt sport demos for Discord servers, which might theoretically allow you to instantly strive a sport with out shopping for it, downloading it, or signing up for an account.
“You may merely click on a button that claims ‘strive a sport’ 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 and marketing director Andrew Concern.
Right here’s a screenshot of what it would appear like, 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 utterly 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 asking it a “know-how announcement” quite than a confirmed function, one which’ll hopefully see sport publishers and builders attain out in the event that they’re enthusiastic about doubtlessly including it to their video games.
After Sony purchased Gaikai in 2012, it initially steered it could supply prompt try-before-you-buy sport demos on the PlayStation 4 too, however that by no means occurred. Years later, Gaikai’s founder instructed me that publishers didn’t essentially need it.