Nvidia’s GeForce Now’s 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 immediate 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 possibly can merely click on a button that claims ‘attempt a recreation’ after which join your Epic Video games account and instantly soar 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’d appear to be, from an Nvidia video, which additionally reveals the Fortnite demo is presently restricted to a 30-minute free trial:
It doesn’t sound utterly frictionless in the event you nonetheless want an Epic Video games account to play, and it’s not clear if Nvidia, Epic and Discord will provide the demo exterior of Gamescom simply but. Nvidia is looking it a “know-how announcement” quite than a confirmed function, one which’ll hopefully see recreation publishers and builders attain out in the event that they’re considering doubtlessly including it to their video games.
After Sony purchased Gaikai in 2012, it initially instructed it might provide immediate try-before-you-buy recreation demos on the PlayStation 4 too, however that by no means occurred. Years later, Gaikai’s founder informed me that publishers didn’t essentially need it.